Subject: Re: CVS commit: pkgsrc
To: None <jnemeth@victoria.tc.ca>
From: John Darrow <John.P.Darrow@wheaton.edu>
List: current-users
Date: 11/09/2000 11:55:48
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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