Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2001 15:45:17 -0800 (PST) From: David Wolfskill <dhw@whistle.com> To: stable@FreeBSD.ORG, steve@Watt.COM Subject: Re: /usr/ports symlink disappears Message-ID: <200103262345.f2QNjHC16442@pau-amma.whistle.com> In-Reply-To: <200103262336.f2QNaRE37653@wattres.Watt.COM>
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>From: steve@Watt.COM (Steve Watt)
>Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2001 15:36:27 -0800
>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.
I'm failing to see the behavior you describe.
I have 3 different bootable environments (most recent -STABLE; previous
-STABLE; -CURRENT (which is, well, current)), each of which has its own
/usr.
But since the ports aren't branched, each of the /usr filesystems has a
symlink:
m133[2] ls -l /usr/ports
lrwx------ 1 root wheel 13 Mar 26 09:11 /usr/ports -> /common/ports
and I've been CVSupping nightly for the last couple of weeks, and
rebuilding -STABLE & -CURRENT daily. I stuck
cd /usr/ports && cvs update -d >>$LOG 2>&1
echo "/usr/ports update ended at `date`" >>${LOG}
in after the CVSup (in the script I use), and I know it's been updating
the ports OK....
Cheers,
david
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