[gentoo-dev] Re: Automated Package Removal and Addition Tracker, for the week ending 2009-10-25 23h59 UTC

[Jonathan Callen]

Samuli Suominen wrote:
> Nirbheek Chauhan wrote:
>> On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 5:45 AM, Robin H. Johnson <robbat2@g.o> wrote:
>>> The attached list notes all of the packages that were added or removed
>>> from the tree, for the week ending 2009-10-25 23h59 UTC.
>>>
>>> Removals:
>> [snip]
>>> x11-themes/gtk-engines-kde4             2009-10-19 16:48:05     ssuominen
>> [snip]
>>> Additions:
>>> x11-themes/gtk-engines-kde4             2009-10-19 16:26:02     ssuominen
>> This is interesting. It's certainly not a category change; and the
>> removal is after the addition; but the directories are still
>> around[1].
>>
>> Samuli, are you in the process of re-committing it or did you miss the
>> empty directories?
>>
>> 1. http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo-x86/x11-themes/gtk-engines-kde4/
>>
>
> It was a very bad decision to add this package so I've removed it like
> few mins after adding.
>
> ssuominen@unique ~/gentoo-x86/x11-themes $ cvs up
> ssuominen@unique ~/gentoo-x86/x11-themes $ ls -l *kde4*
> ls: cannot access *kde4*: No such file or directory
> ssuominen@unique ~/gentoo-x86/x11-themes $
>
> As shown above, there's no empty directory here.
>
>

Actually, due to the way CVS works, there is an empty directory there,
and will *always* be a directory there.  I believe that in order to
actually remove the directory, you have to have shell access to the cvs
server itself.  Most users end up setting up cvs to prune empty
directories when checking out because of this exact problem.

-- 
Jonathan