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Date: 18 Jan 2001 22:02:23 -0500
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W Gerald Hicks <gehicks@cisco.com> writes:

> This syndrome is often caused when one uses CVSup to update their ports
> tree a long time after installing from a release.  CVSup will not
> normally delete any file it didn't create.  Sometimes this will cause a
> stale patch file to be left in a port.

Would a reasonable test/fix for this be deleting the entire port directory
in question and re-cvsupping?  (This should make cvsup recreate everything
and update its file lists, right?)

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