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From: Ben Jackson <ben@ben.com>
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Subject: Re: preventing cvsup from replacing /usr/ports symlink?
In-Reply-To: <200101210047.f0L0lBq15592@vashon.polstra.com> from John Polstra
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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


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