[Dev] Delete directory parcels/osaf/framework/certstore/data

Brendan O'Connor brendano at osafoundation.org
Mon Aug 1 18:22:28 PDT 2005


I liked (Donn's?) suggestion of modifying "make install" to do cleaning  
like this.

Brendan



On Mon, 01 Aug 2005 17:59:45 -0700, Phillip J. Eby <pje at telecommunity.com>  
wrote:

> Earlier today, I refactored the certstore parcel to load data directly  
> from the original .pem data file, rather than by parsing the data from a  
> parcel.xml file.  In the process, I intentionally removed the 'data'  
> subpackage, replacing it with a 'data.py' module.
>
> Unfortunately, subversion does not remove non-empty directories of  
> checkouts when a directory is deleted, and then it forgets that the  
> directory was ever under revision control.  And, since the .pyc and .pyo  
> files in the data/ directory were not under revision control, they do  
> not get deleted.  Thus, you will need to make sure that you delete this  
> directory from your checkout, or you will experience test failures.
>
> This is a general problem with deleting or moving packages, by the way,  
> and not something specific to the changes I made.  Discussion on IRC  
> suggests that our ongoing policy should be to notify the dev list when  
> deleting directories, to give others a chance to make sure that they can  
> clean up the affected directories on their machines.
>
> Just as a heads up, I expect this to happen with more directories this  
> week, as I flatten the osaf.contentmodel hierarchy; I will post here  
> again with specifics before I check in such deletions.
>
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