Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2001 15:36:27 -0800 From: steve@Watt.COM (Steve Watt) To: stable@freebsd.org Subject: /usr/ports symlink disappears Message-ID: <200103262336.f2QNaRE37653@wattres.Watt.COM>
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Greetings, I like to have my /usr/ports stuff on a different filesystem than /usr, but I'd rather not dedicate a whole partition to ports. What I've been doing is ln -s /local/ports /usr, but I just got bitten by that. Actually, I got bitten some time ago, during a cvsup. It appears that cvsup doesn't care for having /usr/ports a symlink, and blows it away and re-checks out everything. Which, if one isn't paying attention leads to two copies of the ports tree, and a number of other ugly side-effects. Any tips on how to make it stop doing that? If it weren't for the various warnings on mount_null, I'd do that. Thanks! -- Steve Watt KD6GGD PP-ASEL-IA ICBM: 121W 56' 57.8" / 37N 20' 14.9" Internet: steve @ Watt.COM Whois: SW32 Free time? There's no such thing. It just comes in varying prices... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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