Re: Getting the latest pkgsrc.tar.gz

[jnemeth%victoria.tc.ca@localhost (John Nemeth)]

On Oct 18,  8:11am, "Rakhesh Sasidharan" wrote:
} On 5/28/06, John Nemeth <jnemeth%victoria.tc.ca@localhost> wrote:
} >      That is the theory...  The idea is that if there are empty
} > directories on the local drive after the update, the directory will be
} > removed.  However, the README.html file isn't in the repository.  These
} > are generated and added when the tarball is created.  Since they aren't
} > in the repository, cvs won't remove them from the local system.  This
} > means that the directory of packages that have been removed won't be
} > completely empty, which in turn means that cvs won't remove the
} > directory.  I don't know of any automated way of cleaning out these
} > directories.  However, if you come across a directory that has nothing
} > but a README.html file (and possibly a work directory), you can assume
} > that the package was deleted and delete the directory.  BTW, you can
} > create the README.html files yourself by typing 'cd /usr/pkgsrc && make
} > readme'.
} 
} Oh ok. Quick question: A package usually has files like "Makefile" and
} "PLIST" and "DESCR" and so on. Once the package is no longer
} maintained, these files wont be there in the repository. So does "cvs
} up -dP" take care of removing these files from the unmaintained
} package directory the local tree, or do these files too remain?

     They will be removed.

} I would have assumed that yes, "cvs up -dP" does remove a file from
} the local store if its not present in the repository, but then that
} would mean all the local README.html files too would have been removed
} long ago by the command (they are present locally but not in the
} repository). Which is obviously not the case ...

     The difference is that since Makefile etc. were in CVS, they will
be listed in the CVS/Entries file, so cvs will know about them and will
know that they need to be deleted.  However, since README.html isn't in
CVS, it won't be listed in the CVS/Entries, so cvs won't know anything
about it and will leave it alone.

}-- End of excerpt from "Rakhesh Sasidharan"