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Date:      18 Jan 2001 22:02:23 -0500
From:      Christopher K Davis <ckd@ckdhr.com>
To:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ports
Message-ID:  <w4ae8os0qo.fsf@kline-station.ckdhr.com>
In-Reply-To: W Gerald Hicks's message of "Thu, 18 Jan 2001 22:48:20 %2B0000"
References:  <F186yAphwFutJLtosJ3000026e1@hotmail.com> <024201c08185$44c5efb0$3028680a@tgt.com> <3A6772B4.4E9FBE74@cisco.com>

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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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