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From: Paul de Vrieze <pauldv@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Tree breakage
Date: Thu, 01 Apr 2004 11:33:12
Message-Id: 200404011333.09677.pauldv@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Tree breakage by Bart Lauwers
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4 On Thursday 01 April 2004 13:21, Bart Lauwers wrote:
5 > On Thursday 01 April 2004 11:38, Paul de Vrieze wrote:
6 > > On Thursday 01 April 2004 11:05, Spider wrote:
7 > > > please fix the darn Manifest files when you've been touching
8 > > > things. That includes when you remove files, when you modifiy
9 > > > patches (!) and others.
10 > >
11 > > I completely second this. You must use repoman. Only in very very
12 > > few special cases is it waranted not to use repoman. If repoman
13 > > prevents you from committing something, find out why and either have
14 > > repoman fixed, or fix your package.
15 >
16 > When removing files repoman won't update Manifest, that's bug number
17 > one, actually I think it will even not let you commit that update
18 > (rm'ed file).
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20 You also need to remove them from cvs of course. If that doesn't do the
21 trick, please file a bug.
22
23 > And now it also seems when using repoman you still need to verify
24 > everything by hand because you can't depend on it to do it properly.
25 > So far I've had nothing but trouble with it and it's never given me
26 > any helpfull comments, except for complaining about going out of
27 > business.
28 >
29 > So how does one regenerate the Manifest when repoman feels it's not
30 > needed? touch one of the non-changed builds and repoman commit or is
31 > there another way?
32
33 rm Manifest
34 ebuild some-ebuild.ebuild digest
35
36 This will do the trick. That should also fix the deleted file issue.
37
38 Paul
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