From owner-freebsd-hubs Tue Aug 20 19:39:23 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 30FDB37B400 for ; Tue, 20 Aug 2002 19:39:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from piglet.dstc.edu.au (piglet.dstc.edu.au [130.102.176.1]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 44D9043E65 for ; Tue, 20 Aug 2002 19:39:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jason@dstc.edu.au) Received: from sunburn.dstc.edu.au (sunburn.dstc.edu.au [130.102.176.16]) by piglet.dstc.edu.au (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g7L2dI4P002432; Wed, 21 Aug 2002 12:39:18 +1000 (EST) Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2002 12:39:17 +1000 (EST) From: jason andrade To: Makoto Matsushita Cc: hubs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to copy packages-4.6.2-release tree to packages-4-stable ? In-Reply-To: <20020821112255R.matusita@jp.FreeBSD.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Spam-Checked: SPAMASSASSIN: This message probably not SPAM X-Spam-Score: -4.5, Required: 5 X-Virus-Scanned: Message: ok X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.9 (www dot roaringpenguin dot com slash mimedefang) 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 On Wed, 21 Aug 2002, Makoto Matsushita wrote: > 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. sorry, i hadn't considered either of those scenarios. in the case of nfs mounting, i believe it should still work unless each package tree is actually in a separate partition (is anyone really doing that on a per package tree basis ?) if you export a symlink it should simply be exporting the directory you point it at.. in terms of stability, yes i agree, changing stuff back and forth is extremely unwelcome so hopefully this means a change isn't needed for a while.. regards, -jason To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hubs" in the body of the message