Re: updating pkgsrc with git trouble
On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 8:31 PM, Matthew Dillon dil...@apollo.backplane.com wrote: Start over. rm -rf /usr/pkgsrc cd /usr make pkgsrc-create Thanks it worked just fine :-) --Siju
Re: updating pkgsrc with git trouble
On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 8:31 PM, Matthew Dillon dil...@apollo.backplane.com wrote: Start over. rm -rf /usr/pkgsrc cd /usr make pkgsrc-create Afterwards dfly-bkpsrv# cd pkgsrc/ dfly-bkpsrv# git describe fatal: cannot describe '11839f634e490e4a4916393f754eb297c8726c65' is this ok? Thanks --Siju
Re: updating pkgsrc with git trouble
2009/9/24 Siju George sgeorge...@gmail.com: Hi, ... Should I do #rm -rf /usr/pkgsrc # make pkgsrc-checkout to get a git repository instead of a cvs one? Yes. And you only need to do this once. Could we handle it with 'make upgrade' or it would be too intrusive for the user? Cheers, Stathis
Re: updating pkgsrc with git trouble
On Thu, 24 Sep 2009 09:01:54 +0300 Stathis Kamperis ekamp...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/9/24 Siju George sgeorge...@gmail.com: Hi, ... Should I do #rm -rf /usr/pkgsrc # make pkgsrc-checkout to get a git repository instead of a cvs one? Yes. And you only need to do this once. Could we handle it with 'make upgrade' or it would be too intrusive for the user? If it wiped /usr/pkgsrc/distfiles it would be a pain - if it carefully preserved that then I think it would be fine. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith | Directable Mirror Arrays C:WIN | A better way to focus the sun The computer obeys and wins.|licences available see You lose and Bill collects. |http://www.sohara.org/
Re: updating pkgsrc with git trouble
On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 11:31 AM, Stathis Kamperis ekamp...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/9/24 Siju George sgeorge...@gmail.com: Hi, ... Should I do #rm -rf /usr/pkgsrc # make pkgsrc-checkout to get a git repository instead of a cvs one? Yes. And you only need to do this once. It doesnot seem to work :-( dfly-bkpsrv# cd /usr/ dfly-bkpsrv# make pkgsrc-update cd /usr/pkgsrc git pull fatal: Not a git repository (or any of the parent directories): .git *** Error code 128 Stop in /usr. dfly-bkpsrv# rm -rf pkgsrc/ recursively remove pkgsrc/? y dfly-bkpsrv# make pkgsrc-checkout cd /usr/pkgsrc git checkout vendor cd: can't cd to /usr/pkgsrc *** Error code 2 Stop in /usr. dfly-bkpsrv# mkdir pkgsrc dfly-bkpsrv# make pkgsrc-checkout cd /usr/pkgsrc git checkout vendor fatal: Not a git repository (or any of the parent directories): .git *** Error code 128 Stop in /usr. dfly-bkpsrv# Thanks --Siju
Re: updating pkgsrc with git trouble
: Could we handle it with 'make upgrade' or it would be too intrusive : for the user? : : If it wiped /usr/pkgsrc/distfiles it would be a pain - if it :carefully preserved that then I think it would be fine. : :-- :Steve O'Hara-Smith | Directable Mirror Arrays It would be preserved by the git pull, but I think it would be too intrusive. make upgrade has always worked without network connectivity before and I think it is important that it continue to do so. -Matt Matthew Dillon dil...@backplane.com
Re: updating pkgsrc with git trouble
On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 08:27:42AM -0700, Matthew Dillon wrote: : Could we handle it with 'make upgrade' or it would be too intrusive : for the user? : : If it wiped /usr/pkgsrc/distfiles it would be a pain - if it :carefully preserved that then I think it would be fine. : :-- :Steve O'Hara-Smith | Directable Mirror Arrays It would be preserved by the git pull, but I think it would be too intrusive. make upgrade has always worked without network connectivity before and I think it is important that it continue to do so. I agree with this. I have local changes to my pkgsrc/ cvs dir and wiping it out with make upgrade would be quite annoying. --Peter pgpUmruFq2xRy.pgp Description: PGP signature
