Three-level ports (Re: RFC: patch for bsd.port.mk to use ${PORTSDIR}/MOVED)

Sun Aug 17 17:38:55 PDT 2003

On Sun, Aug 17, 2003 at 03:10:23PM -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> [*] e.g. addressing some key technical issues like the fact that all
> the repo-copies needed to move ports around would more than double the
> size of the ports CVS repository

You should use the mv(1) command instead of the cp(1) command,
specially for this. It doesn't matter for history, history is in
the files, not in the directories.

Edwin

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