Date: Thu, 15 May 2003 11:57:54 -0400 From: Jason Andresen <jandrese@mitre.org> To: Daniel Lang <langd-freebsd-hackers@leo.org> Cc: 'Kris Kennaway' <kris@obsecurity.org> Subject: Re: cvsupd Message-ID: <3EC3B902.3070202@mitre.org> In-Reply-To: <20030515153343.GC71411@atrbg11.informatik.tu-muenchen.de> References: <20030515152046.GB71411@atrbg11.informatik.tu-muenchen.de> <004a01c31af6$3c24fd80$0200a8c0@mainframe> <20030515153343.GC71411@atrbg11.informatik.tu-muenchen.de>
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Daniel Lang wrote: > Sure. CVSup does not delete files, it doesn't know about. > Certainly it doesn't know anything about fart and therefore > won't touch it. This is intended behaviour of CVSup. > (Think about the "make readmes" nightmare, that several > users, including me stubled across. The README.html files > never get deleted and so you are stuck with dozens of > virtually empty and outdated port directories). Nightmare? I always thought of it more as a nusance. Can't you run something like (note, I write in zsh, convert to whatever language you like): cd /usr/ports for foo ( * ) do if [[ -d $foo ]] then cd $foo for bar ( * ) do if [[ -d $bar ]] then rm $bar/README.html rmdir $bar fi done cd .. fi done make readmes You'll have to ignore a huge number of warnings about being unable to rmdir directories with files in them, but it seems pretty simple and shouldn't take too long to run on most machines. You could also probably make this a little safer by running some checks to make sure you don't cd into directories you don't have permission to, but that's left as an exercise for the reader. -- \ |_ _|__ __|_ \ __| Jason Andresen jandrese@mitre.org |\/ | | | / _| Network and Distributed Systems Engineer _| _|___| _| _|_\___| Office: 703-883-7755
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