From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Aug 17 17:38:55 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A8BD37B401 for ; Sun, 17 Aug 2003 17:38:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from topaz.ad1810.com (topaz.ad1810.com [212.204.230.141]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC87043FAF for ; Sun, 17 Aug 2003 17:38:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from edwin@mavetju.org) Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=k7.mavetju ident=edwin) by topaz.ad1810.com with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19oY2v-0006J5-00; Mon, 18 Aug 2003 02:38:54 +0200 Received: by k7.mavetju (Postfix, from userid 1001) id A7DFF6A7101; Mon, 18 Aug 2003 10:38:50 +1000 (EST) Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2003 10:38:50 +1000 From: Edwin Groothuis To: Kris Kennaway Message-ID: <20030818003850.GB812@k7.mavetju> References: <3F3FF917.8040903@ciam.ru> <20030817221023.GA68086@rot13.obsecurity.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030817221023.GA68086@rot13.obsecurity.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Three-level ports (Re: RFC: patch for bsd.port.mk to use ${PORTSDIR}/MOVED) X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2003 00:38:55 -0000 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. Edwin -- Edwin Groothuis | Personal website: http://www.mavetju.org edwin@mavetju.org | Weblog: http://www.mavetju.org/weblog/weblog.php