Bug 522132

Summary:	repoman should warn about empty FILESDIR in cvs tree
Product:	Portage Development	Reporter:	Pacho Ramos <pacho>
Component:	Repoman	Assignee:	Portage team <dev-portage>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Pacho Ramos gentoo-dev

2014-09-04 10:03:12 UTC

I have seen some cases of sections with an empty files/ subdirectory. Maybe would be interesting to let repoman warn about this to remember to cvs rm -Rf them :)

Thanks a lot

Comment 1 Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis 2014-09-04 10:27:09 UTC

It is impossible to delete directories in CVS (except by direct manipulation of repository on server side).
As mentioned in https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/CVS/Tutorial you should always use 'cvs up' with -P and -d options (preferably set in ~/.cvsrc) so that directories with 0 non-deleted files are hidden.

Comment 2 Pacho Ramos gentoo-dev

2014-09-04 10:42:11 UTC

Oops, ok, thanks and sorry for the noise