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Date:      Sun, 1 Apr 2001 12:52:54 -0700 (PDT)
From:      John Polstra <ports@freebsd.org>
To:        ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Error: your port uses an old layout.
Message-ID:  <200104011952.f31Jqs300558@vashon.polstra.com>
In-Reply-To: <20010331131052.E15392@casimir.physics.purdue.edu>
References:  <200103310749.f2V7mxf78610@ns1.unixathome.org> <20010331131052.E15392@casimir.physics.purdue.edu>

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In article <20010331131052.E15392@casimir.physics.purdue.edu>,
Will Andrews  <will@physics.purdue.edu> wrote:
> 
> On Sat, Mar 31, 2001 at 07:48:58PM +1200, Dan Langille wrote:
> > 2 - Perhaps this will be answered by Q1, but:  Lately, the most common=20
> > solution I've seen hadned out is rm -rf /usr/ports and cvsup again. Not=
> =20
> > only is that a huge waste of bandwidth, it's also a huge burdon on those=
> =20
> > with dial up connections.  Is there a more practical solution?
> 
> Yes.  A script to find and prune all the old stuff is more practical.
> Only problem is, nobody's written one yet.  The suspects in particular
> are all of the pkg/ and patches/ directories.

There has been a script called cvsupchk in the contrib subdirectory
of the CVSup source and binary distributions for a very long time.  I
put out a general call for somebody to make a port of it a couple of
months ago, but didn't get any takers.

John
-- 
  John Polstra                                               jdp@polstra.com
  John D. Polstra & Co., Inc.                        Seattle, Washington USA
  "Disappointment is a good sign of basic intelligence."  -- Chögyam Trungpa


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