From owner-freebsd-hubs Tue Aug 20 19:23: 3 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hubs@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 150E637B401 for ; Tue, 20 Aug 2002 19:23:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from castle.jp.FreeBSD.org (castle.jp.FreeBSD.org [210.226.20.15]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC4F643E3B for ; Tue, 20 Aug 2002 19:22:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from matusita@jp.FreeBSD.org) Received: from localhost (localhost [::1]) by castle.jp.FreeBSD.org (8.11.6+3.4W/8.11.3) with ESMTP/inet6 id g7L2Mw310052 for ; Wed, 21 Aug 2002 11:22:58 +0900 (JST) (envelope-from matusita@jp.FreeBSD.org) In-Reply-To: <20020821105736W.matusita@jp.FreeBSD.org> References: <20020820182050.A2586@hub.freebsd.org> <20020821105736W.matusita@jp.FreeBSD.org> X-User-Agent: Mew/1.94.2 XEmacs/21.5 (bamboo) X-FaceAnim: (-O_O-)(O_O- )(_O- )(O- )(- -)( -O)( -O_)( -O_O)(-O_O-) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Dispatcher: imput version 20000228(IM140) Lines: 19 From: Makoto Matsushita To: hubs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to copy packages-4.6.2-release tree to packages-4-stable ? Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2002 11:22:55 +0900 Message-Id: <20020821112255R.matusita@jp.FreeBSD.org> 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 jason> ln -s packages-4.6.2-release packages-4-stable matusita> Don't, don't do that please. Somebody include me assume that matusita> packages-4-stable is a directory, not a symlink. matusita> Imagine that a mirror site puts packages-4-stable/ directory matusita> to its own partition, since packages are big enough. And yet another people do NFS mount the directory from their local ftp mirror to their own machines. In this case, changing directory to symlink makes some troubles. If packages-4-stable becomes symlink (and don't turn back to directory) for now, that's OK. But symlink -> directory -> symlink -> directory -> ... never ending transition is unwelcome. -- - Makoto `MAR' Matsushita To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hubs" in the body of the message