On Wed, Oct 27, 2004 at 09:52:28AM +0200, Erik P. Skaalerud wrote:
> Matthew Dillon wrote:
> >:
> >:Hi. :-)
> >:
> >:Looking at the logoutput from my nightly archive of src, I see that all
> >:the files for contrib/bind-9.2.4rc4 got deleted from CVS last night..
> >:But all the folders inside contrib/bind-9.2.4rc4 are still there.
> >:
> >:I didnt get any commit mail about this either, so I'm wondering if this
> >:is some halfway done ripout?
> >:
> >:- Erik
> >
> > No, the files were physically removed from the archive. The
> > directories should be automatically deleted if you use cvs update -Pd.
> > Your ~/.cvsrc should contain at least:
> >
> > update -Pd
> > checkout -P
> >
> > To properly prune dead directories.
> >
> > -Matt
> > Matthew Dillon
> > <dillon@backplane.com>
>
> But...
>
> http://www.dragonflybsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/src/contrib/bind-9.2.4rc4/
>
> My cvsupd mirror for dragonflybsd have been running for how long? 4 or 5
> months? (dragon.bsdtech.com). I have always used cvsup to synch it (not
> checked out mode), and it works great. I dont think that this is an
> error on my side, since your CVS repo still has the dirs.
>
The directories are there so the cvs client will delete all the files from your
checked out source code when you run "cvs update".
--
Eirik Nygaard