From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Jan 20 16:46:27 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 2D14837B400 for ; Sat, 20 Jan 2001 16:45:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from vashon.polstra.com (vashon.polstra.com [206.213.73.13]) by wall.polstra.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA26116; Sat, 20 Jan 2001 16:44:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jdp@wall.polstra.com) Received: (from jdp@localhost) by vashon.polstra.com (8.11.1/8.11.0) id f0L0il715575; Sat, 20 Jan 2001 16:44:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jdp) Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2001 16:44:48 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <200101210044.f0L0il715575@vashon.polstra.com> To: stable@freebsd.org From: John Polstra Reply-To: stable@freebsd.org Cc: ben@ben.com Subject: Re: preventing cvsup from replacing /usr/ports symlink? In-Reply-To: <200101202028.f0KKSUr80758@saturn.home.ben.com> References: <200101202028.f0KKSUr80758@saturn.home.ben.com> Organization: Polstra & Co., Seattle, WA Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In article <200101202028.f0KKSUr80758@saturn.home.ben.com>, Ben Jackson 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? > > Do I need to add a line `*default prefix=/a' just before `ports-all' in > the cvsupfile? It would be better to change the ports-all line to: ports-all prefix=/a Remember, a "*default" line changes the setting for all of the collections following it in the supfile. 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