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Date:      Wed, 17 Dec 1997 13:45:04 -0500 (EST)
From:      Kevin Street <street@iName.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   cvsup and symlinks
Message-ID:  <199712171845.NAA12428@kstreet.interlog.com>

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I've had my /usr/ports dir be a symlink to /usr/u2/ports for some time 
and this has been working fine.  Today however, halfway through a
cvsup run the symlink got clobbered and the rest of the cvsup run
happily created a new, partial, /usr/ports tree. 

Here's a little chunk out of the cvsup log:

 Delete ports/net/tcptrace/patches/patch-aa
 Delete ports/net/tcptrace/patches/patch-ab
 Delete ports/net/tcptrace/patches/patch-ac
 Edit ports/net/tcptrace/pkg/PLIST
  Add delta 1.3 97.12.15.22.37.37 fenner
 Delete ports/pkg/DESCR	                      <-- what's this??
 Checkout ports/print/ghostscript4/pkg/COMMENT
 Checkout ports/print/ghostscript4/pkg/DESCR
 Checkout ports/print/ghostscript4/pkg/PLIST
 Checkout ports/print/ghostscript4/scripts/configure

>From this point on it does Checkouts of the rest of the ports tree in
/usr/ports instead of updating /usr/u2/ports.  It looks like it
deleted the /usr/ports symlink at the time it tried to do
Delete ports/pkg/DESCR. (and this looks bogus anyway...)

Any idea why cvsup 15.2 would yank the symlink out from under itself?
-- 
Kevin Street
street@iName.com



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