Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2003 14:55:57 +1000
From: Edwin Groothuis <edwin@mavetju.org>
To: FreeBSD Ports <ports@FreeBSD.org>
Subject: Re: Three-level ports (Re: RFC: patch for bsd.port.mk to use ${PORTSDIR}/MOVED)
Message-ID: <20030818045557.GC812@k7.mavetju>
In-Reply-To: <20030818012906.GV95290@procyon.firepipe.net>
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On Sun, Aug 17, 2003 at 06:29:06PM -0700, Will Andrews wrote: > On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 10:38:50AM +1000, Edwin Groothuis wrote: > > On Sun, Aug 17, 2003 at 03:10:23PM -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > > [*] e.g. addressing some key technical issues like the fact that all > > > the repo-copies needed to move ports around would more than double the > > > size of the ports CVS repository > > > > You should use the mv(1) command instead of the cp(1) command, > > specially for this. It doesn't matter for history, history is in > > the files, not in the directories. > > Unless I'm mistaken, this would not work as cvs checkouts would > get confused and bomb when they see that there's no ,v file for a > given checkout file... Won't it just remove the old file? Or is it cvsup you are talking about? Edwin -- Edwin Groothuis | Personal website: http://www.mavetju.org edwin@mavetju.org | Weblog: http://www.mavetju.org/weblog/weblog.php
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