Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 11:23:08 -0500 From: "Christopher M. Giordano" <CGiordano@ids.net> To: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: jdp@polstra.com Subject: Re: preventing cvsup from replacing /usr/ports symlink? Message-ID: <3A6C5E6C.3E84EAC0@ids.net> References: <200101202028.f0KKSUr80758@saturn.home.ben.com> <20010121021117.A2300@snark.ptc.spbu.ru> <200101210047.f0L0lBq15592@vashon.polstra.com>
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John Polstra wrote:
>
> 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.
This happened to me two days ago (jan 20, 1030 AM), and it always
seems to occur when re-cvsup'ing following a failed cvsup.
In this case, the first attempt failed with a message like:
"Updater failed: unable to delete file archivers/arc/Makefile: no
such file or directory", which in itself seemed odd, since I
was starting with a full copy of the ports tree. Restarting
cvsup then filled /usr/ports tree in my /usr filesystem rather
than the linked filesystem. I assume the link is deleted upon
the first failure, but I have no evidence of this.
I know that's _very_ little to go on....
Chris Giordano
CGiordano@ids.net
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