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CVS and DarwinPorts

I learnt something new about CVS last night: it's possible to track checkouts as well as commits.

cvs history -o -u andrew
O 2000-06-05 13:05 +0000 andrew
=.= <remote>/*

Cool. My first checkout from the Luminas repository was allegedly June 2000...

I'm trying to get gimp2 up and running on the Powerbook, since I'm not feeling particularly tempted to pay up for Photoshop. I'm trying to get the darwinports version (sudo port install gimp2), but it's proving to be a PITA. It seems darwinports are not overly good at tracking updates to packages ... so far I've fixed several problems by removing the "work" (ie build) directories from the CVS checkout directory and then reinstalling packages like atk.

In the darwinports directory, sudo find . -name work -a -type d -exec rm '-r' '{}' ';' improved the situation (followed by a swift cvs update). Now I'm just waiting for GTK2 to finish building ...