On 04/25/10 20:37, J.C. Roberts wrote:
On Sun, 25 Apr 2010 23:55:35 +0100 Owain Ainsworth
<[email protected]> wrote:
On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 05:27:26PM -0500, Chris Bennett wrote:
I am glad to see someone else agreeing that rm-ing xenocara and
getting it again is a good choice.
I had to build a few debugging versions and I found the instructions
for getting it clean to use again extremely confusing.
I was concerned I would get it wrong and mess everything new up.
To get a completely clean tree with nothing unrecognised by cvs,
assuming that no files known by cvs are corrupted (do not do this if
you have testing drivers in the tree that are not related to cvs). If
it breaks, you keep the pieces.
$ cvs up | grep ^\? | tr -d '\?' | xargs rm -rf
$ cvs up # just in case
Those who are better at awk than I could come up with something
shorter, I bet.
For me at least, the problem is not 'unrecognized' files, instead it is
*modified* files. With "XENOCARA_RERUN_AUTOCONF=Yes" set in mk.conf,
half the damn tree is molested by gnu autoshit resulting supposedly
"modofied" files.
Since the `cvs up -C` flag is currently broken in both gnu cvs and
opencvs (BUG: user/6363 -- copies modified files rather than moving
them out of the way and fetching a fresh copy from cvs, resulting in
a merge "M" rather than "U" update/fetch of the now missing file), there
is no way to simply overwrite the modified files.
Anyhow, whether or not '-C' works, you'd still be refetching half (or
more) of the xenocara tree since a vast portion of it is gnu autoshit
files which have been modified.
As for building a lot quicker by not setting XENOCARA_RERUN_AUTOCONF,
well, then you would not be testing to make sure gnu autoshit is still
working properly. In short, it's a no-win situation.
Well, when I had to use xenocara, I immediately thought that if I had
made it separate partition, like I have /usr/src and /usr/obj then I
could have done like is done for ports and src in release versions.
checkout a new version, tar xzpf xenocara.tar.gz.xenocara
Use directory, newfs it, unpack tar file, cvs up etc
