Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2001 00:01:25 +0300 From: Alex Popa <razor@ldc.ro> To: Steve Watt <steve@Watt.COM> Subject: Re: /usr/ports symlink disappears Message-ID: <20010329000124.A49214@ldc.ro> In-Reply-To: <200103262336.f2QNaRE37653@wattres.Watt.COM>; from steve@Watt.COM on Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 03:36:27PM -0800 References: <200103262336.f2QNaRE37653@wattres.Watt.COM>
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Hello. You might want to read the ports-supfile a bit more carefully... Here is the relevant part (I think): # prefix=/usr # This specifies where to place the requested files. A # setting of "/usr" will place all of the files requested # in "/usr/ports" (e.g., "/usr/ports/devel", "/usr/ports/lang"). # The prefix directory must exist in order to run CVSup. So have a line like "*default prefix=/local", anj just keep the link there. This way, cvsup should update the source where ypu want it, and you can use the /usr/ports link to feel comfortable. HTH Alex On Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 03:36:27PM -0800, Steve Watt wrote: > Greetings, > > I like to have my /usr/ports stuff on a different filesystem than /usr, > but I'd rather not dedicate a whole partition to ports. What I've been > doing is ln -s /local/ports /usr, but I just got bitten by that. > Actually, I got bitten some time ago, during a cvsup. It appears > that cvsup doesn't care for having /usr/ports a symlink, and blows it > away and re-checks out everything. Which, if one isn't paying attention > leads to two copies of the ports tree, and a number of other ugly > side-effects. > > Any tips on how to make it stop doing that? If it weren't for the > various warnings on mount_null, I'd do that. > > Thanks! > > -- > Steve Watt KD6GGD PP-ASEL-IA ICBM: 121W 56' 57.8" / 37N 20' 14.9" > Internet: steve @ Watt.COM Whois: SW32 > Free time? There's no such thing. It just comes in varying prices... ------------+------------------------------------------ Alex Popa, | "Artificial Intelligence is razor@ldc.ro| no match for Natural Stupidity" ------------+------------------------------------------ "It took the computing power of three C-64s to fly to the Moon. It takes a 486 to run Windows 95. Something is wrong here." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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