Subject: Re: Adding pkgsrc/distfiles/.cvsignore to repository
To: Matthias Scheler <tron@zhadum.de>
From: David Brownlee <abs@netbsd.org>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 11/22/1999 09:59:25
On 21 Nov 1999, Matthias Scheler wrote:

> In article <Pine.NEB.4.20.9911191405560.305-100000@oblivion.mono.org>,
> 	David Brownlee <abs@mono.org> writes:
> > It should avoid a '? XXX.tgz' from every file in distfiles
> > when running a cvs update...
> 
> What's wrong about letting "DISTFILES" to an apropriate directory?

	That would work around the problem, but since the default
	setup both points to distfiles, and ships a 'distfiles'
	directory under CVS, it seems reasonable to make it ignore
	the contents.


		David/absolute