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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


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