cleaning up

Joshua Root jmr at macports.org
Tue Jan 12 11:36:16 PST 2010


On 2010-1-13 02:33 , Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> 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.

<http://trac.macports.org/browser/trunk/base/src/registry1.0/portimage.tcl#L330>

- Josh


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