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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>
Cc:        hubs@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: How to copy packages-4.6.2-release tree to packages-4-stable ?
Message-ID:  <20020821032116.GA34817@dragon.nuxi.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.44.0208211122320.2498-100000@sunburn.dstc.edu.au>
References:  <20020820182050.A2586@hub.freebsd.org> <Pine.GSO.4.44.0208211122320.2498-100000@sunburn.dstc.edu.au>

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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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