From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Jan 20 16:47:52 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from wall.polstra.com (rtrwan160.accessone.com [206.213.115.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E6FE37B400 for ; Sat, 20 Jan 2001 16:47:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from vashon.polstra.com (vashon.polstra.com [206.213.73.13]) by wall.polstra.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA26132; Sat, 20 Jan 2001 16:47:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jdp@wall.polstra.com) Received: (from jdp@localhost) by vashon.polstra.com (8.11.1/8.11.0) id f0L0lBq15592; Sat, 20 Jan 2001 16:47:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jdp) Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2001 16:47:11 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <200101210047.f0L0lBq15592@vashon.polstra.com> To: stable@freebsd.org From: John Polstra Reply-To: stable@freebsd.org Cc: uwe@ptc.spbu.ru Subject: Re: preventing cvsup from replacing /usr/ports symlink? In-Reply-To: <20010121021117.A2300@snark.ptc.spbu.ru> References: <200101202028.f0KKSUr80758@saturn.home.ben.com> <20010121021117.A2300@snark.ptc.spbu.ru> Organization: Polstra & Co., Seattle, WA Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In article <20010121021117.A2300@snark.ptc.spbu.ru>, Valeriy E. Ushakov wrote: > On Sat, Jan 20, 2001 at 12:28:14 -0800, Ben Jackson wrote: > > > My /usr/ports is a symlink to another filesystem (/a/ports). Last night > > cvsup nuked that symlink and filled my root filesystem with ports. How > > do I avoid that? > > Hmm, this happens to me sometimes. I usually cvsup my the ports tree > weekly and it happens like, maybe, one cvsup out of five. I have gotten other reports of this in the past, but I have not been able to reproduce the problem myself. If you can figure out when it happens and when it doesn't, please let me know. John -- John Polstra jdp@polstra.com John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA "Disappointment is a good sign of basic intelligence." -- Chögyam Trungpa To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message