cleaning up

Ryan Schmidt ryandesign at macports.org
Tue Jan 12 07:33:53 PST 2010


Quoting Joshua Root:

> On 2010-1-12 10:40 , Bradley Giesbrecht wrote:
>
>> I'd like to see
>> port keep track of these renames in a registry.
>
> It does if the renamed files belong to a port.

It has been my experience that using "sudo port -f activate" will move  
any conflicting files out of the way, renaming them with a  
.mp_${timestamp} suffix, and that these renamed files are not  
registered to any port nor tracked anywhere, and are left for the user  
to remove manually.





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