From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Jan 23 22:18: 5 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from pop3.ids.net (pop3.ids.net [155.212.1.107]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6493837B401 for ; Tue, 23 Jan 2001 22:17:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from ids.net (dialup120f.egr-ri.ids.net [155.212.222.120]) by pop3.ids.net (8.10.1/8.10.1) with ESMTP id f0O6Hh923111; Wed, 24 Jan 2001 01:17:43 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <3A6E7353.4C441CD5@ids.net> Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 01:16:51 -0500 From: "Christopher M. Giordano" Reply-To: CGiordano@ids.net X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: John Polstra Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: preventing cvsup from replacing /usr/ports symlink? References: <200101202028.f0KKSUr80758@saturn.home.ben.com> <20010121021117.A2300@snark.ptc.spbu.ru> <200101210047.f0L0lBq15592@vashon.polstra.com> <3A6C5E6C.3E84EAC0@ids.net> <200101232308.f0NN8QT25018@vashon.polstra.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG John Polstra wrote: > > True, but it does help. Thanks to you and the others who sent > information about this. > > Questions for those who have seen this happen: > > 1. You're using checkout mode, right? Yes. > 2. Are you using "-s" on the cvsup command line? No, because cvsup(1)'s man page says "the results are undefined" if files have been locally modified and -s is used. I do make minor local mods, and that "undefined" part doesn't give me a good feeling, regardless of how appealing a reduction in disk activity is. > Finally, you can avoid any chance of this happening by making sure > that CVSup's "prefix" setting points to the real parent directory of > your ports tree -- not to a symlink that points there. Here's an Ahhh, Bach. I am definitely using the symlink; I'll try it with the actual parent directory. Thanks. Chris Giordano CGiordano@ids.net -- All cats are grey in the dark. -- Benjamin Franklin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message