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Subject: Re: Ghostscript-6.50_2 under 4.0 Stable
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rbm49@student.canterbury.ac.nz (Richard B Mahoney) writes:

> It seems that the ports Update only writes over an existing ports
> tree. It does not delete it. This explains why I had a number of
> ancient patches still lying around. I will have to cvsup the
> whole tree to clean things up. It seems it is not adequate just
> to update it. 

Not the first time.  After that, it should be fine.

Reference:
http://www.polstra.com/projects/freeware/CVSup/faq.html#caniadopt


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