From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Jan 20 13:19: 7 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from firebat.bushong.net (c128625-a.frmt1.sfba.home.com [24.176.225.90]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E064537B401 for ; Sat, 20 Jan 2001 13:18:50 -0800 (PST) Received: (from dbushong@localhost) by firebat.bushong.net (8.11.0/8.11.0) id f0KLIjN63588; Sat, 20 Jan 2001 13:18:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dbushong) Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2001 13:18:45 -0800 From: David Bushong To: Volker Stolz Cc: ben@ben.com, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: preventing cvsup from replacing /usr/ports symlink? Message-ID: <20010120131845.H16505@bushong.net> References: <200101202028.f0KKSUr80758@saturn.home.ben.com> <20010120214425.A5024@agamemnon.informatik.rwth-aachen.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010120214425.A5024@agamemnon.informatik.rwth-aachen.de>; from stolz@I2.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE on Sat, Jan 20, 2001 at 09:44:25PM +0100 X-Floating-Sheep-Port: 0xbaa Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG This happens to me, too. Drove me insane at first.. thought someone else with root was doing something bad. --David Bushong On Sat, Jan 20, 2001 at 09:44:25PM +0100, Volker Stolz wrote: > In local.freebsd-stable, you wrote: > >My /usr/ports is a symlink to another filesystem (/a/ports). Last night > >cvsup nuked that symlink and filled my root filesystem with ports. How > >do I avoid that? > > Are you sure? This usually happens to me on installworld, cvsup works > fine. > -- > \usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}! > Volker Stolz * stolz@i2.informatik.rwth-aachen.de * PGP + S/MIME > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message