Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2001 18:11:54 -0800 (PST) From: Ben Jackson <ben@ben.com> To: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: uwe@ptc.spbu.ru Subject: Re: preventing cvsup from replacing /usr/ports symlink? Message-ID: <200101210212.f0L2C1o82474@saturn.home.ben.com> In-Reply-To: <200101210047.f0L0lBq15592@vashon.polstra.com> from John Polstra at "Jan 20, 2001 04:47:11 pm"
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> In article <20010121021117.A2300@snark.ptc.spbu.ru>, > > Hmm, this happens to me sometimes. I usually cvsup my the ports tree > > weekly and it happens like, maybe, one cvsup out of five. > > I have gotten other reports of this in the past, but I have not been > able to reproduce the problem myself. If you can figure out when it > happens and when it doesn't, please let me know. It may be trying to delete /usr/ports when it's a directory, too, but FreeBSD's unlink() won't let the superuser delete directories. Be interesting to see what cvsup does on a platform that still does... --Ben To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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