Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2001 16:47:11 -0800 (PST) From: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> To: stable@freebsd.org Cc: uwe@ptc.spbu.ru Subject: Re: preventing cvsup from replacing /usr/ports symlink? Message-ID: <200101210047.f0L0lBq15592@vashon.polstra.com> In-Reply-To: <20010121021117.A2300@snark.ptc.spbu.ru> References: <200101202028.f0KKSUr80758@saturn.home.ben.com> <20010121021117.A2300@snark.ptc.spbu.ru>
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In article <20010121021117.A2300@snark.ptc.spbu.ru>, Valeriy E. Ushakov <uwe@ptc.spbu.ru> 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
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