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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
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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

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