From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 16 16:31:29 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA14550 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 16 Nov 1998 16:31:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from wopr.caltech.edu (wopr.caltech.edu [131.215.240.222]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA14544 for ; Mon, 16 Nov 1998 16:31:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mph@wopr.caltech.edu) Received: (from mph@localhost) by wopr.caltech.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) id QAA09465; Mon, 16 Nov 1998 16:30:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mph) Message-ID: <19981116163055.A9422@wopr.caltech.edu> Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1998 16:30:55 -0800 From: Matthew Hunt To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?P=E5l_Sommerhein?= Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Trouble using cvs References: <365094C5.333284C1@ifi.uio.no> <19981116152535.B8035@wopr.caltech.edu> <3650BFFD.F80B8234@ifi.uio.no> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?=3C3650BFFD=2EF80B8234=40ifi=2Euio=2Eno=3E=3B_from_P=E5l_?= =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sommerhein_on_Tue=2C_Nov_17=2C_1998_at_01:14:53AM_+0100?= Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Nov 17, 1998 at 01:14:53AM +0100, Pål Sommerhein wrote: > I just wonder, I have moved the old ports directory to /usr/ports-old. > Is it safe to just delete it? I delete mine pretty frequently; it should be fine as long as you haven't made any modifications that you want to keep. One common mistake (that I've made more often than I care to admit) is to delete /usr/src/sys with the intent of checking out a new copy, and thereby losing your kernel configurations in /usr/src/sys/i386/conf. -- Matthew Hunt * Science rules. http://www.pobox.com/~mph/pgp.key for PGP public key 0x67203349. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message