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

[Edwin Groothuis]

On Sun, Aug 17, 2003 at 06:29:06PM -0700, Will Andrews wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 10:38:50AM +1000, Edwin Groothuis wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> Unless I'm mistaken, this would not work as cvs checkouts would
> get confused and bomb when they see that there's no ,v file for a
> given checkout file...

Won't it just remove the old file? Or is it cvsup you are talking about?

Edwin
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