From owner-freebsd-hubs@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 7 09:01:41 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hubs@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE3141065688 for ; Wed, 7 May 2008 09:01:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kris@FreeBSD.org) Received: from weak.local (freefall.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::28]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 91AF68FC1F; Wed, 7 May 2008 09:01:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kris@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: <48216FF3.70509@FreeBSD.org> Date: Wed, 07 May 2008 11:01:39 +0200 From: Kris Kennaway User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (Macintosh/20080421) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mark Linimon References: <4820D3F1.2090908@isc.org> <20080506224408.GA9224@soaustin.net> In-Reply-To: <20080506224408.GA9224@soaustin.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-hubs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: updates from ftp-master are failing... X-BeenThere: freebsd-hubs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "FreeBSD Distributions Hubs: mail sup ftp" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 07 May 2008 09:01:41 -0000 Mark Linimon wrote: > On Tue, May 06, 2008 at 02:56:01PM -0700, Peter Losher wrote: >> Connected to ftp-master.freebsd.org >> Updating collection FreeBSD-archive/all >> Rsync FreeBSD/TIMESTAMP >> Symlink FreeBSD/ports/sparc64/packages-7-current -> packages-7-stable >> Updater failed: Cannot install >> "/proj/mirrors/FreeBSD/ftp/pub/FreeBSD/ports/sparc64/#cvs.cvsup-85240.2" >> to >> "/proj/mirrors/FreeBSD/ftp/pub/FreeBSD/ports/sparc64/packages-7-current": >> Is a directory >> -=- > > This is probably something to do with the fact that I rearranged > things in those directories (in an attempt to avoid having to reload > the entire contents, which sounds like it has now failed). > > Initially packages-7-current was the directory and packages-7-stable > was a symlink to it. Yesterday I switched them (using a temporary > directory name). > > OTOH from what I'm seeing on ftp4 right now, everything is like I > expect it to be ... This is the situation (directory becomes a symlink) that cvsup cannot handle. There's no way to avoid forcing a cvsup mirror to re-download the entire contents when you rename a directory, except by local intervention by the admin. Kris