Subject: Re: Can't make rpm-2.5.4
To: Webmaster Jim <jspath@bcpl.net>
From: David Brownlee <abs@anim.dreamworks.com>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 06/27/1999 14:14:39
On Sun, 27 Jun 1999, Webmaster Jim wrote:
> I'm not SUPing, just FTPing the pkgsrc.tar file. Could makefiles include
> a way to delete obsolete patches?
>
Hmm, "On that path lies danger". If anything it should probably be
a warning rather than an automatic delete, though you can get the
current list of files by running tar tzf on the tarfile...
It would be simple enough to write a script to list the unwanted
files, though if you're using ftp to download the pkgsrc you
should really nuke the old pkgsrc before extracting (Thats
mentioned in the software/packages.html#setting_up_pkgsrc webpage
:)
David/absolute
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