Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2001 15:39:34 -0800 From: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> To: Steve Watt <steve@Watt.COM> Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /usr/ports symlink disappears Message-ID: <20010326153934.A29630@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> In-Reply-To: <200103262336.f2QNaRE37653@wattres.Watt.COM>; from steve@Watt.COM on Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 03:36:27PM -0800 References: <200103262336.f2QNaRE37653@wattres.Watt.COM>
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--tThc/1wpZn/ma/RB Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 03:36:27PM -0800, Steve Watt wrote: > 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. >=20 > 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. Point cvsup at the actual location. I'm pretty sure the cvsup author knows about the problem. -- Brooks --=20 Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4 --tThc/1wpZn/ma/RB Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE6v9M1XY6L6fI4GtQRAt7kAKDTlMHBLpu53QrLyM/fy1KE9CkTlgCcCbuD zC21FZLmq/BLsogdPl8TAUw= =yFhu -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --tThc/1wpZn/ma/RB-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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