Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2002 11:25:32 +1000 (EST) From: jason andrade <jason@dstc.edu.au> To: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: hubs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to copy packages-4.6.2-release tree to packages-4-stable ? Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.44.0208211122320.2498-100000@sunburn.dstc.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <20020820182050.A2586@hub.freebsd.org>
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On Tue, 20 Aug 2002, David O'Brien wrote: > The packages in packages-4.6.2-release are much newer than those in > packages-4-stable. Do people prefer I do: > > 1. rm -rf packages-4-stable > cp -rp packages-4.6.2-release packages-4-stable > > 2. [hard] link every file in packages-4.6.2-release into > packages-4-stable > > 3. rm -rf packages-4-stable > ln -s packages-4.6.2-release packages-4-stable personally yes, for now. except why can't you do: mv packages-4-stable .p4stable.old ln -s packages-4.6.2-release packages-4-stable rm -rf .p4stable.old this way any mirrors automatically getting that whole tree (i cannot afford this anymore - it's got way too many issues which break stuff for us) will NOT have to refetch an entire tree and will just delete about 5G of stuff. in the future when you break 4-stable back out (maybe) they will have to refetch the binaries, but that would have been necessary anyway with a new build...) in short, please please consider doing this. regards, -jason To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hubs" in the body of the message
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