Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2000 18:50:16 +0200 From: Dirk Froemberg <dirk@freebsd.org> To: Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami <asami@freebsd.org> Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ports in new layout and CVS Message-ID: <20001022185016.B87601@physik.TU-Berlin.DE> In-Reply-To: <vqclmvhjgeh.fsf@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu>; from asami@freebsd.org on Sun, Oct 22, 2000 at 03:53:42AM -0700 References: <20001022124852.A83272@physik.TU-Berlin.DE> <vqclmvhjgeh.fsf@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu>
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Hi Satoshi! Thanks for your quick answer... On Sun, Oct 22, 2000 at 03:53:42AM -0700, Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami wrote: > * Looking at bsd.port.mk line 599 and following I found that bsd.port.mk > * checks if some directories are present. Of course they are present > * if you check out a port from CVS... > > Um, why is that? ;) 8-) > You should really use the -P flag to cvs update, or you are going to > end up with a whole lot of bogus directories (such as the entire > subtree for an already deleted port, not to mention thousand of > unneeded directories we are trying hard to get rid of). I'm using cvs to check out single ports. Sometimes it's useful to me to have extra information that would be deleted otherwise (e. g. when adding new files). I just thought it would be nice to catch both cases (with and without -P). It's simple here... Regards Dirk -- Dirk Froemberg FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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