From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Jan 24 15:59:18 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from wall.polstra.com (rtrwan160.accessone.com [206.213.115.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E1D037B400; Wed, 24 Jan 2001 15:58:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from vashon.polstra.com (vashon.polstra.com [206.213.73.13]) by wall.polstra.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f0ONwwa20403; Wed, 24 Jan 2001 15:58:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jdp@wall.polstra.com) Received: (from jdp@localhost) by vashon.polstra.com (8.11.1/8.11.0) id f0ONwwA28772; Wed, 24 Jan 2001 15:58:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jdp) Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 15:58:58 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <200101242358.f0ONwwA28772@vashon.polstra.com> To: stable@freebsd.org From: John Polstra Cc: nik@freebsd.org Subject: Re: preventing cvsup from replacing /usr/ports symlink? In-Reply-To: <20010124110912.A2127@canyon.nothing-going-on.org> References: <200101202028.f0KKSUr80758@saturn.home.ben.com> <3A6C5E6C.3E84EAC0@ids.net> <200101232308.f0NN8QT25018@vashon.polstra.com> <20010124110912.A2127@canyon.nothing-going-on.org> Organization: Polstra & Co., Seattle, WA Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Thanks for the answers, guys. I was finally able to reproduce the bug and I can see what's causing it. It shouldn't be too hard to fix. Meanwhile, the safest work-around is to make sure your prefix points to the true parent directory of "/usr/ports". John -- John Polstra jdp@polstra.com John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA "Disappointment is a good sign of basic intelligence." -- Chögyam Trungpa To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message