From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Jan 24 3:31:27 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (unknown [194.128.198.234]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D60F437B6A3 for ; Wed, 24 Jan 2001 03:31:09 -0800 (PST) Received: (from nik@localhost) by nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f0OB9D002141; Wed, 24 Jan 2001 11:09:13 GMT (envelope-from nik) Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 11:09:12 +0000 From: Nik Clayton To: John Polstra Cc: stable@freebsd.org, CGiordano@ids.net Subject: Re: preventing cvsup from replacing /usr/ports symlink? Message-ID: <20010124110912.A2127@canyon.nothing-going-on.org> 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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200101232308.f0NN8QT25018@vashon.polstra.com>; from jdp@polstra.com on Tue, Jan 23, 2001 at 03:08:26PM -0800 Organization: FreeBSD Project Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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? Yes (but only the ports tree), the supfile entry looks like ports-all prefix=/usr tag=. I know I could change 'prefix', but the whole point of this disk configuration is to enable me to flexibly move things around disks and partitions without needing to update application config files. > 2. Are you using "-s" on the cvsup command line? No. cvsup -g /usr/local/etc/supfile N -- Internet connection, $19.95 a month. Computer, $799.95. Modem, $149.95. Telephone line, $24.95 a month. Software, free. USENET transmission, hundreds if not thousands of dollars. Thinking before posting, priceless. Somethings in life you can't buy. For everything else, there's MasterCard. -- Graham Reed, in the Scary Devil Monastery To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message