Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2001 15:34:50 -0500 From: Will Andrews <will@physics.purdue.edu> To: FreeBSD Ports <ports@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: Error: your port uses an old layout. Message-ID: <20010331153450.J15392@casimir.physics.purdue.edu> In-Reply-To: <20010331222710.B13539@mandark.attica.home>; from abgoeree@uwnet.nl on Sat, Mar 31, 2001 at 10:27:10PM %2B0200 References: <200103310749.f2V7mxf78610@ns1.unixathome.org> <20010331131052.E15392@casimir.physics.purdue.edu> <20010331222710.B13539@mandark.attica.home>
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--G32kpiKURVjWs3Ul Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, Mar 31, 2001 at 10:27:10PM +0200, Andre Goeree wrote: > Please read and try out the filter i suggested in my previous > reply. It takes care of *all* problems related to CVSup not deleting > files. As you experienced it's not enough to just remove pkg and > patches... My approach is to take the CVSup checkouts file(s) and the > information about "live files" (files that should exist on disk) > stored in the checkouts files. The filter i described does just that, > it makes a list of "live files". By copying these live files to another > location or rolling a tarball of these files (and these files only) as > i suggested you get rid of things that shouldn't be in the portsdir. > After copying/rolling the tarball you rm -fr the old portsdir and > copy/untar the live files to your portsdir. This is all there is to be > done. No CVSup from scratch needed anymore :-) The problem with yours is that it is even more intense in metadata ops on the filesystem than mine is. And I'm pretty dang sure that mine will work. :-) --=20 wca --G32kpiKURVjWs3Ul Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE6xj9qF47idPgWcsURAvsVAJ4nCG8l1qs9HS6p8Zln/t94z0xgcgCfY2UE t1aIBfXEq2FYfhBEgnh2NUs= =48J7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --G32kpiKURVjWs3Ul-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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