From owner-freebsd-doc Wed Oct 22 15:44:06 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id PAA06056 for doc-outgoing; Wed, 22 Oct 1997 15:44:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-doc) Received: from post.mail.demon.net (post-10.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.154]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id PAA06016 for ; Wed, 22 Oct 1997 15:43:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from fdocs@jraynard.demon.co.uk) Received: from jraynard.demon.co.uk ([158.152.42.77]) by post.mail.demon.net id aa1014114; 22 Oct 97 23:39 BST Received: (from fdocs@localhost) by jraynard.demon.co.uk (8.8.7/8.8.7) id UAA02279; Wed, 22 Oct 1997 20:11:55 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from fdocs) Message-ID: <19971022201154.12907@jraynard.demon.co.uk> Date: Wed, 22 Oct 1997 20:11:54 +0100 From: James Raynard To: Brion Moss Cc: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re:Problem based on Handbook answer References: <199710201527.IAA26236@coven.queeg.com> <19971021221825.19739@jraynard.demon.co.uk> <199710221457.HAA04280@coven.queeg.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.81e In-Reply-To: <199710221457.HAA04280@coven.queeg.com>; from Brion Moss on Wed, Oct 22, 1997 at 07:57:01AM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, Oct 22, 1997 at 07:57:01AM -0700, Brion Moss wrote: > James Raynard writes: [someone else wrote] > > > > > > My understanding was that if I did this it would also grab all the contents > > > of the ports/distfiles/ directory as well > > > > Correct. It may well fill up your root partition as well :-) > > No, you won't grab the contents of ports/distfiles, because the > distfiles directory is not under that directory: Oops! That'll teach me to post without checking. Apologies for wasting everyone's time... -- James Raynard, Edinburgh, Scotland. james@jraynard.demon.co.uk http://www.freebsd.org/~jraynard/