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Date:      Sat, 3 Feb 2001 22:52:08 -0500 (EST)
From:      Trevor Johnson <trevor@jpj.net>
To:        Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au>
Cc:        Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami <asami@FreeBSD.ORG>, <ports@FreeBSD.ORG>, <cvs@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: overzealous cleaning of Attics in ports tree 
Message-ID:  <200102032240200.13362-100000@blues.jpj.net>
In-Reply-To: <200101162152.f0GLqSs17351@mobile.wemm.org>

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On Tue, 16 Jan 2001, Peter Wemm wrote:

> Peter Pentchev wrote:
> > On Sun, Jan 14, 2001 at 07:06:10AM -0500, Trevor Johnson wrote:
> > >
> > > > I have a copy of everything that was deleted sitting on freefall in a
> > > > .tar.gz.  I really really do not want this cruft to go back into
> > > > /home/ncvs/ports, but as a compromise how about leaving it extracted
> > > > elsewhere?  Perhaps even /home/ncvs/oldports ?  That avoids the
> > > > wasted time multiplied by the number of cvs updates multiplied by the
> > > > number of developers, but still leaves it within reach IF necessary.
> > >
> > > I don't want to jump through hoops when dealing with removed files.  In PR
> > > 24276, David Gilbert writes:
> > >
> > > 	In the XFree86-4 port as installed by distribution CDROMs, there
> > > 	are a number of patch files that have been deleted from the cvs
> > > 	tree without being put in the attic.  Even with "*default delete"
> > > 	turned on in my supfile, patch-1 is not deleted and causes the
> > > 	XFree86-4 port build to fail.
> > >
> > > This is a result of the purge, isn't it?
> >
> > I've had several friends run to me for help with exactly this situation -
> > cvsup'ping yesterday from a 4.1-R ports tree, and winding up with several
> > unapplicable yet undeleted patches - the CVS and cvsup servers no longer know
> > anything about these patches, and the cvsup client refuses to delete files
> > it does not recognize.  Thanks for clearing up the mystery of the old
> > patches lying around; any ideas as to how they can resolve that, short of
> > rm -rf /usr/ports and pulling in a bright-and-shiny fresh new ports tree? :(
> > [not always a perfect solution for people on slow modem links.. not too
> >  much good publicity either, I think :(( ]
>
> I am going to go through today and restore the Attic files that existed in
> or after the RELEASE_4_2 tag.  I wasn't counting on cvsup in checkout mode
> breaking here.  cvs does the right thing.
>
> Cheers,
> -Peter
> --
> Peter Wemm - peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com; peter@netplex.com.au

I e-mailed Peter Wemm at two of his addresses to remind him to follow
through on his promise.  My messages were "received but ignored".  I've
put my copy of the Attic files at
http://people.freebsd.org/~trevor/ports/attics-all.tar.bz2 .
-- 
Trevor Johnson
http://jpj.net/~trevor/gpgkey.txt



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