Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2001 13:18:45 -0800 From: David Bushong <david@bushong.net> To: Volker Stolz <stolz@I2.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE> Cc: ben@ben.com, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: preventing cvsup from replacing /usr/ports symlink? Message-ID: <20010120131845.H16505@bushong.net> 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 %2B0100 References: <200101202028.f0KKSUr80758@saturn.home.ben.com> <20010120214425.A5024@agamemnon.informatik.rwth-aachen.de>
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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
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