On Thu, Feb 05, 2004 at 07:54:48AM -0600, Frederick Bruckman wrote:
> On Thu, 5 Feb 2004, Richard Rauch wrote:
> 
> > One thing that I've noticed, which is a bit disturbing, is that the
> > update seems to be reviving the old "pkg" directories.  As I recall,
> > those used to hold things like DESCR and such.
> 
> With CVS, a directory never really goes away. Recall that the history

I know.


> of every deleted file still exists somewhere in the repository, and
> realize that it has to be stored somewhere. What happens when you do
> an update with "-P" -- prune -- is that after everything else is done,
> the client makes one more pass and deletes any empty directories. So,

Ah, I didn't know that.  That explains why it takes so long to complete
the update of pkgsrc.


> it's quite normal to see those if you're interrupting the update.
> They'll go away once you complete an update.

I'm trying.  It died on its own last night.  I'm trying again now, and
it's in sysutils/su2/patches after a couple of hours.  (poke-poke-poke)

At least it got further.  Last night it stopped on "net/mtr", I believe.


Thanks for the information.


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