From owner-freebsd-hubs Tue Sep 25 18:19:40 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hubs@freebsd.org Received: from peter3.wemm.org (c1315225-a.plstn1.sfba.home.com [24.14.150.180]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A772537B417; Tue, 25 Sep 2001 18:19:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from overcee.netplex.com.au (overcee.wemm.org [10.0.0.3]) by peter3.wemm.org (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id f8Q1JaM23595; Tue, 25 Sep 2001 18:19:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from peter@wemm.org) Received: from wemm.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by overcee.netplex.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4FD0A3809; Tue, 25 Sep 2001 18:19:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from peter@wemm.org) X-Mailer: exmh version 2.3.1 01/18/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: Jordan Hubbard Cc: jonny@embratel.net.br, wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu, hubs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Can the mess in ports/alpha/packages-4-stable please be fixed? In-Reply-To: <20010925172611C.jkh@freebsd.org> Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2001 18:19:36 -0700 From: Peter Wemm Message-Id: <20010926011936.4FD0A3809@overcee.netplex.com.au> Sender: owner-freebsd-hubs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Jordan Hubbard wrote: > > BTW, instead of leaving the files in /All and setting links in the othe r > > directories, I'd rather find the files in its original main folders, and li nks > > in /All, /Latest and other folders. > > That's not the way it works - the package target in ports is very > specific about putting files in All/ and then making symlinks to that > directory. Changing that will make this collection different from all > others before it and also unpleasantly astonish those who are used > to established convention. The problem is that somebody, somewhere, somehow, is using scp -r to copy the alpha ports tree to ftp-master and is snapping all the links in the process. This is not happening for i386. We need to find out who is actually doing this and get them to stop it and do it so that the symlinks are preserved. (ie: use scp -rp(?) or tar) Cheers, -Peter -- Peter Wemm - peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com; peter@netplex.com.au "All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hubs" in the body of the message