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Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2002 20:21:16 -0700
From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG>
To: jason andrade <jason@dstc.edu.au>
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Subject: Re: How to copy packages-4.6.2-release tree to packages-4-stable ?
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On Wed, Aug 21, 2002 at 11:25:32AM +1000, jason andrade wrote:
> > 3. rm -rf packages-4-stable
> >    ln -s packages-4.6.2-release packages-4-stable
> 
> personally yes, for now.  except why can't you do:
> 
> mv packages-4-stable .p4stable.old
> ln -s packages-4.6.2-release packages-4-stable
> rm -rf .p4stable.old
> 
> this way any mirrors automatically getting that whole tree (i cannot
> afford this anymore - it's got way too many issues which break stuff
> for us) will NOT have to refetch an entire tree and will just delete
> about 5G of stuff.

I don't follow why that could happen.  The packages-4-stable tree already
exists.

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