Re: contrib/bind-9.2.4rc4

[Eirik Nygaard <eirikn@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> 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