From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Mar 26 16:15:12 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from subnet.sub.net (subnet.sub.net [212.227.14.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB97837B719 for ; Mon, 26 Mar 2001 16:15:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wolfgang@lyxys.ka.sub.org) Received: from lyxys.ka.sub.org (uucp@localhost) by subnet.sub.net (8.8.8/8.8.8/1.2subnet-linux) with bsmtp id CAA09409 for stable@FreeBSD.ORG; Tue, 27 Mar 2001 02:15:07 +0200 Received: from localhost (1117 bytes) by lyxys.ka.sub.org via sendmail with P:stdio/R:smart_host/T:inet_uusmtp (sender: ) (ident using unix) id for ; Tue, 27 Mar 2001 02:10:01 +0200 (CEST) (Smail-3.2.0.111 2000-Feb-17 #1 built 2000-Aug-23) Message-Id: From: wolfgang@lyxys.ka.sub.org (Wolfgang Zenker) Subject: Re: /usr/ports symlink disappears In-Reply-To: <200103262346.f2QNkX802713@vashon.polstra.com> "from John Polstra at Mar 26, 2001 03:46:33 pm" To: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 02:10:01 +0200 (CEST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL88 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG John Polstra wrote: > Brooks Davis wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 03:36:27PM -0800, Steve Watt wrote: > > > 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. > > Point cvsup at the actual location. I'm pretty sure the cvsup author > > knows about the problem. > I've heard it reported enough times to be fully convinced it is a bona > fide problem. But I have never found a way to reproduce it myself. The problem seems to happen only when your connection fails during cvsup and cvsup restarts the connection. Wolfgang To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message