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On Wed, 27 Dec 2000 00:04:59 +0100, Lupe Christoph <lupe@lupe-christoph.de> wrote: > On Tuesday, 2000-12-26 at 16:29:14 +0100, Andreas J. Koenig wrote: > > >>>>> On Tue, 26 Dec 2000 11:09:43 +0100 (MET), Lupe Christoph <lupe@lupe-christoph.de> said: > > > filt-util.t is no longer part of bleadperl. You should rsync with > > --delete switch from time to time. > > > filter-util.t is the replacement and has this particular bug fixed. It > > was a bug in the test and was fixed in patch 7849. > > --- Also sprach Andreas J. Koenig --- > > Ah! So, please make that an OK report. ;-) > > (I had 26 files that got deleted by the --delete option.) > > This raises the question, though - why does pod/perlhack.pod not > mention the --delete option? > > I suppose it's easy to do the rsync equivalent of "rm -rf" with > this option, but shouldn't perlhack.pod at least mention that > this option is a good idea if you rsync on a regular basis? > > Something like this maybe? > > *** pod/perlhack.pod.orig Fri Nov 17 16:05:33 2000 > --- pod/perlhack.pod Wed Dec 27 00:00:09 2000 > *************** > *** 241,246 **** > --- 241,256 ---- > distribution) and setting date/time stamps of existing files to > reflect the bleadperl status. > > + Note that this will not delete any files that where in '.' before > + the rsync. Once you are sure that the rsync is running correctly, > + run it with the --delete options like this: > + > + # rsync -avz --delete rsync://ftp.linux.activestate.com/perl-current/ . > + > + This will get rid of any files that are not in bleadperl. Possibly > + even files that you wanted to keep. So make sure you run this > + in a directory you can afford loose. And don't blame us... > + > You can than check what patch was the latest that was applied by > looking in the file B<.patch>, which will show the number of the > latest patch. Why not --dry-run (-n) for what it is to delete and than do it by hand. Just mention as it an alternative. -- H.Merijn Brand Amsterdam Perl Mongers (http://www.amsterdam.pm.org/) using perl-5.005.03, 5.6.0, 5.6.1, 5.7.1 & 623 on HP-UX 10.20 & 11.00, AIX 4.2 AIX 4.3, WinNT 4.0 SP-6a, and Win2000pro often with Tk800.022 &/| DBD-Unify ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/languages/perl/CPAN/authors/id/H/HM/HMBRAND/Thread Previous | Thread Next