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| author | Lupe Christoph <lupe@lupe-christoph.de> | 2000-12-29 00:00:00 +0100 |
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| committer | Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi> | 2000-12-29 01:23:31 +0000 |
| commit | c6d0653ecf0dad132c23d7d0cee4e6f636535da7 (patch) | |
| tree | 86dc7a31deb9e4ec6e542a6c815ea9fa60910540 /pod/perlhack.pod | |
| parent | 792b2c1636f29e9c8ddbd03dbcee9083ba541eed (diff) | |
| download | perl-c6d0653ecf0dad132c23d7d0cee4e6f636535da7.tar.gz | |
Re: [ID 20001226.002] Not OK: perl v5.7.0 +DEVEL8221 on i86pc-solaris 2.8 (UNINSTALLED)
Message-ID: <20001228230000.F2574@alanya.lupe-christoph.de>
Suggest rsync --delete --dry-run.
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@8246
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diff --git a/pod/perlhack.pod b/pod/perlhack.pod index 21d8850e29..155773d8e5 100644 --- a/pod/perlhack.pod +++ b/pod/perlhack.pod @@ -241,6 +241,17 @@ the latest applied patch level, creating files that are new (to your distribution) and setting date/time stamps of existing files to reflect the bleadperl status. +Note that this will not delete any files that were in '.' before +the rsync. Once you are sure that the rsync is running correctly, +run it with the --delete and the --dry-run options like this: + + # rsync -avz --delete --dry-run rsync://ftp.linux.activestate.com/perl-current/ . + +This will I<simulate> an rsync run that also deletes files not +present in the bleadperl master copy. Observe the results from +this run closely. If you are sure that the actual run would delete +no files precious to you, you could remove the '--dry-run' option. + 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. |