updates from ftp-master are failing...

[Kris Kennaway]

Mark Linimon wrote:
> On Tue, May 06, 2008 at 02:56:01PM -0700, Peter Losher wrote:
>> Connected to ftp-master.freebsd.org
>> Updating collection FreeBSD-archive/all
>>  Rsync FreeBSD/TIMESTAMP
>>  Symlink FreeBSD/ports/sparc64/packages-7-current -> packages-7-stable
>> Updater failed: Cannot install 
>> "/proj/mirrors/FreeBSD/ftp/pub/FreeBSD/ports/sparc64/#cvs.cvsup-85240.2" 
>> to 
>> "/proj/mirrors/FreeBSD/ftp/pub/FreeBSD/ports/sparc64/packages-7-current": 
>> Is a directory
>> -=-
> 
> This is probably something to do with the fact that I rearranged
> things in those directories (in an attempt to avoid having to reload
> the entire contents, which sounds like it has now failed).
> 
> Initially packages-7-current was the directory and packages-7-stable
> was a symlink to it.  Yesterday I switched them (using a temporary
> directory name).
> 
> OTOH from what I'm seeing on ftp4 right now, everything is like I
> expect it to be ...

This is the situation (directory becomes a symlink) that cvsup cannot 
handle.  There's no way to avoid forcing a cvsup mirror to re-download 
the entire contents when you rename a directory, except by local 
intervention by the admin.

Kris