From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Jan 21 10: 6:30 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk [193.237.89.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 759A437B699 for ; Sun, 21 Jan 2001 10:06:08 -0800 (PST) Received: (from nik@localhost) by nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f0LFJbM10440; Sun, 21 Jan 2001 15:19:37 GMT (envelope-from nik) Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2001 15:19:36 +0000 From: Nik Clayton To: stable@freebsd.org Cc: uwe@ptc.spbu.ru Subject: Re: preventing cvsup from replacing /usr/ports symlink? Message-ID: <20010121151936.A10410@canyon.nothing-going-on.org> References: <200101202028.f0KKSUr80758@saturn.home.ben.com> <20010121021117.A2300@snark.ptc.spbu.ru> <200101210047.f0L0lBq15592@vashon.polstra.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200101210047.f0L0lBq15592@vashon.polstra.com>; from jdp@polstra.com on Sat, Jan 20, 2001 at 04:47:11PM -0800 Organization: FreeBSD Project Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, Jan 20, 2001 at 04:47:11PM -0800, John Polstra wrote: > In article <20010121021117.A2300@snark.ptc.spbu.ru>, > Valeriy E. Ushakov 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. It still happens periodically for me, and has done on 3.x, 4.x, and now -current. John, I'd be more than happy to rebuild cvsup with any extra debugging options you'd like to help track this down. N -- Internet connection, $19.95 a month. Computer, $799.95. Modem, $149.95. Telephone line, $24.95 a month. Software, free. USENET transmission, hundreds if not thousands of dollars. Thinking before posting, priceless. Somethings in life you can't buy. For everything else, there's MasterCard. -- Graham Reed, in the Scary Devil Monastery To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message