Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2001 16:24:27 -0500 From: Will Andrews <will@physics.purdue.edu> To: Trevor Johnson <trevor@jpj.net> Cc: Will Andrews <will@physics.purdue.edu>, FreeBSD Ports <ports@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Error: your port uses an old layout. Message-ID: <20010331162427.L15392@casimir.physics.purdue.edu> In-Reply-To: <20010331161509.R189-100000@blues.jpj.net>; from trevor@jpj.net on Sat, Mar 31, 2001 at 04:28:47PM -0500 References: <20010331153450.J15392@casimir.physics.purdue.edu> <20010331161509.R189-100000@blues.jpj.net>
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--Nwn6wlxaqfRJxJFc Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, Mar 31, 2001 at 04:28:47PM -0500, Trevor Johnson wrote: > Suppose the user got a copy of the ports tree in November, and in a > particular (hypothetical) port there was a files/patch-aa. Also suppose > that in December, the maintainer of the port did a "cvs rm" on that patch. > Around 11 January, all Attic files were removed from the ports collection. > Today, the user updates his ports tree. Because there is no Attic file > for it, files/patch-aa remains. The user follows Will's suggestion and > removes all pkg/ and patches/ directories, along with their contents. > The user tries to build the hypothetical port. Either files/patch-aa > applies, or "make patch" fails. If it applies, the ported command doesn't > behave the way the maintainer of the port wanted it to. If "make patch" > fails, the user may contact the maintainer about the problem, or may just > give up. Er, I thought the removed Attics thing happened in October, not January... --=20 wca --Nwn6wlxaqfRJxJFc 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 iD8DBQE6xksLF47idPgWcsURAjgcAJsH008YuOepKOXIvLPPGLV3IbZ6WgCdGPmM 10tZEMMVk0J7zrubArw2lZo= =m1wZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Nwn6wlxaqfRJxJFc-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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