updating pkgsrc with git trouble

Steve O'Hara-Smith steve at sohara.org
Thu Sep 24 00:38:01 PDT 2009


On Thu, 24 Sep 2009 09:01:54 +0300
Stathis Kamperis <ekamperi at gmail.com> wrote:

> 2009/9/24 Siju George <sgeorge.ml at 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.

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