John Nemeth <jnemeth@victoria.tc.ca> wrote:
>On Feb 8,  1:19am, John Darrow wrote:
>} Ty Sarna <tsarna@netbsd.org> wrote:
>} >
>} >Module Name:	pkgsrc
>} >Committed By:	tsarna
>} >Date:		Sun Oct 22 20:04:30 UTC 2000
>} >
>} >Removed Files:
>} >	pkgsrc/print/py-reportlab/files: patch-sum
>} >	pkgsrc/print/py-reportlab/patches: patch-aa patch-ab
>} >
>} >Log Message:
>} >nuke no longer needed patches
>} 
>} Shouldn't we keep around a placeholder patch-sum file so that people who
>} update pkgsrc without removing it first (e.g. extract from a new tar file,
>} or sup without the 'delete' flag) won't end up with leftover patches trying
>} to apply themselves?
>
>     The leftover patches don't try to apply themselves.  You get a
>warning message saying that is not in patch-sum was found and that it
>isn't being applied.

But if they've supped without delete, or extracted a tar, they'd still have
_both_ the obsolete patches _and_ the obsolete patch-sum, which lists said
patches.  A placeholder patch-sum fixes this, and was created for this very
reason.

jdarrow

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