Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 01:16:51 -0500 From: "Christopher M. Giordano" <CGiordano@ids.net> To: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: preventing cvsup from replacing /usr/ports symlink? Message-ID: <3A6E7353.4C441CD5@ids.net> 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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John Polstra wrote:
>
> True, but it does help. Thanks to you and the others who sent
> information about this.
>
> Questions for those who have seen this happen:
>
> 1. You're using checkout mode, right?
Yes.
> 2. Are you using "-s" on the cvsup command line?
No, because cvsup(1)'s man page says "the results are undefined"
if files have been locally modified and -s is used. I do make
minor local mods, and that "undefined" part doesn't give me a
good feeling, regardless of how appealing a reduction in disk
activity is.
> 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
Ahhh, Bach. I am definitely using the symlink; I'll try it
with the actual parent directory. Thanks.
Chris Giordano
CGiordano@ids.net
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