From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Oct 14 20:57:31 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from gershwin.tera.com (gershwin.cray.com [207.224.230.28]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E329237B66C; Sat, 14 Oct 2000 20:57:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from thought.org (tao.sea.tera.com [207.108.223.55]) by gershwin.tera.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA19599; Sat, 14 Oct 2000 18:40:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from kline@localhost) by thought.org (8.11.0/8.11.0) id e9F1enI40349; Sat, 14 Oct 2000 18:40:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline) Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2000 18:40:48 -0700 From: Gary Kline To: Brett Taylor Cc: Chris Faulhaber , Gary Kline , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, FreeBSD Ports Subject: Re: how noe Brown Ports! Message-ID: <20001014184048.B40211@tao.thought.org> References: <20001014145009.C97358@peitho.fxp.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: ; from brett@peloton.runet.edu on Sat, Oct 14, 2000 at 08:31:02PM -0400 X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, Oct 14, 2000 at 08:31:02PM -0400, Brett Taylor wrote: > Hi > > On Sat, 14 Oct 2000, Chris Faulhaber wrote: > > > Do what it says. Update bsd.port.mk (use ports-all or ports-base in > > your supfile). > > This does NOT necessarily work - I cvsup ports-all and I was bit by the > same thing. I know in CVS you can use the -P switch to kill the empty > directories, but is there an equivalent switch or way to do this w/ CVSup? > It sure isn't the -P switch which controls TCP connections. > > Barring that a simple: > > cd /usr/ports && rm -rf */*/patches/ && rm -rf */*/pkg/ > > will take care of things. > Hm, I remember that line from one of your earlier posts, Brett. I just wasn't aware of the context.... Myself, being more than a bit paranoid, would opt for find /usr/port <&c> commands... , then re-cvsup'ing just-in-case the find -exec /bin/rm -rf blew away something incorrectly. ( I do believe in daemons, you know :) Suggest to avoid fellow stragglers from similar head-scratching, we might want to post a Heads-Up to -questions; plus -stable. gary -- Gary D. Kline kline@tao.thought.org Public service Unix To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message