Date: Thu, 06 May 1999 18:45:37 -0700 (PDT) From: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> To: Gregory Bond <gnb@itga.com.au> Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG, Nik Clayton <nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk> Subject: Re: Directories disappearing with CVSUP, -stable, and SOFTUPDATE Message-ID: <XFMail.990506184537.jdp@polstra.com> In-Reply-To: <199905062319.JAA05080@lightning.itga.com.au>
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Gregory Bond wrote: > I just noticed last night that I too now have two copies of the ports tree - > one in /usr/src/ports which was where I installed it, and where the symlink > _used_ to point, and now a whole new copy in /usr/ports. > > The latest date on a directory in the old, symlinked-to bit is Apr 12, the > oldest directory in the new bit is Apr 28. (flat files in these two > directories have different dates). > > I've used cvsup.au.freebsd.org and cvsup2.freebsd.org in the past, and am > currently using cvsup2 (via a plug-gw in the firewall). I may have swapped > between the two servers in that interval 12/4 - 28/4. > > jdp: any more info I can send? Thanks -- the dates you mentioned are helpful. Maybe I can match them against dates when new top-level directories were created in the ports tree and get a clue. I doubt that the problem had anything to do with which server you used, or with softupdates. My suspicion is that it's an actual, deterministic bug in CVSup itself. It smells like one, anyway. I hope I can nail this within the next week or two. Until there's a fix, it'll be best to point your "prefix" to the real parent directory above "ports" rather than to the directory containing the symlink. Every report of this problem I've seen has involved that symlink. John --- John Polstra jdp@polstra.com John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA "Self-interest is the aphrodisiac of belief." -- James V. DeLong To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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