[aur-general] can not update community package

[Aaron Griffin]

On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 12:10 AM, Allan McRae <allan at archlinux.org> wrote:
> Aaron Griffin wrote:
>>
>> On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 5:08 PM, Loui Chang <louipc.ist at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 05:28:44PM -0500, Eric Bélanger wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>>  On Sun, 23 Nov 2008, Eric Bélanger wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> you could grep  the scripts (I don't know which one) for
>>>>> /home/cvs-community
>>>>> to change it to the new location
>>>>> I think it's the cause of the problem.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>  I followed my suggestion and found that /home/cvs-community is
>>>> referenced in
>>>>  the cvs* dir in /srv/http/sites/aur
>>>>  I don't know how to change it properly or even if it's safe to change
>>>> it.
>>>>  Hopefully someone with more knowledge of the AUR will be able to use
>>>> this
>>>>  info.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Ahh right.
>>>
>>> That needs to be run:
>>> find . -path '*CVS/Root' -exec sed -i
>>> 's#/home/cvs-community#/srv/cvs/cvs-community#g' {} ';
>>>
>>
>> Done. Just an FYI, lots of unsupported packages seem to have CVS dirs.
>>
>
> Yeah, CVS can't remove directories AFAIK.  Most/all of the files in these
> directories should be removed.

I was under the impression that unsupported was not tracked in CVS.
That's why I said that - I assumed the CVS dirs were a result of
erroneous copying from *other* CVS controlled dirs