Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 15:48:55 -0800 From: David Bushong <david@bushong.net> To: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG, CGiordano@ids.net Subject: Re: preventing cvsup from replacing /usr/ports symlink? Message-ID: <20010123154855.U16505@bushong.net> In-Reply-To: <200101232308.f0NN8QT25018@vashon.polstra.com>; from jdp@polstra.com on Tue, Jan 23, 2001 at 03:08:26PM -0800 References: <200101202028.f0KKSUr80758@saturn.home.ben.com> <20010121021117.A2300@snark.ptc.spbu.ru> <200101210047.f0L0lBq15592@vashon.polstra.com> <3A6C5E6C.3E84EAC0@ids.net> <200101232308.f0NN8QT25018@vashon.polstra.com>
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On Tue, Jan 23, 2001 at 03:08:26PM -0800, John Polstra wrote: > > ... > > Questions for those who have seen this happen: > > 1. You're using checkout mode, right? > Yep. > 2. Are you using "-s" on the cvsup command line? > Yep. > Finally, you can avoid any chance of this happening by making sure > that CVSup's "prefix" setting points to the real parent directory of > your ports tree -- not to a symlink that points there. Here's an > easy way to find out, if there's any doubt: > > vashon$ cd /usr/ports > vashon$ /bin/pwd > /c/ports > > So in this case you should have "prefix=/c" in your supfile, either in > a "*default" line or on the same line(s) as your ports collection(s). > Did that a week ago; seems to have fixed the problem. --David Bushong To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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