Re: cvs fumbles with packages and distfiles

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>]

On Thu, Oct 02, 2014 at 10:58:08AM +0200, Richard PALO wrote:
> Noticed this annoyance for awhile now:
> >richard@omnis:/home/richard/src/pkgsrc$ cvs update
> >cvs update: ignoring distfiles (CVS/Repository missing)
> >cvs update: ignoring packages (CVS/Repository missing)
> >cvs update: move away `distfiles/.cvsignore'; it is in the way
> >C distfiles/.cvsignore
> >cvs update: move away `packages/.cvsignore'; it is in the way
> >C packages/.cvsignore
> 
> is there any particular reason to keep these in the tree?
> This foils a private ~/.cvsignore with packages and distfiles in it.

Yes, they are the default location and as such, removing them would
create noise for most users. You know that you can easily just move the
location via mk.env?

Joerg