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#! rnews 2025 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!inferno.mpx.com.au!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mel.aone.net.au!grumpy.fl.net.au!news.webspan.net!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!enews.sgi.com!news.sgi.com!su-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!newsxfer3.itd.umich.edu!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!uunet!in1.uu.net!206.13.28.13!news.pbi.net!news5.crl.com!nexp.crl.com!usenet From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Linking to /cdrom/ports Date: Thu, 20 Feb 1997 00:08:41 -0800 Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM Lines: 24 Message-ID: <330C0687.2781E494@FreeBSD.org> References: <2ep9e5.qm1.ln@dolphin.neosoft.com> <01bc1d8d$f2f09aa0$0342000a@southpole> <1mace5.ir1.ln@dolphin.neosoft.com> <330A628D.4487EB71@FreeBSD.org> <j4ree5.8j.ln@dolphin.neosoft.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: time.cdrom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2-970215-GAMMA0 i386) To: conrads@neosoft.com Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:35892 Conrad Sabatier wrote: > More confused than ever now! :-) > > So then it *is* OK to do it like I did above? Yes, totally. > Right, I grasp that much. :-) What I'm still confused about is why the > handbook says to create a new directory, symlink /usr/ports to it, and > then lndir /usr/ports/ to /cdrom/ports. Doesn't make sense to me. Heh, it does?! Where? I just looked at James Raynard's port tutorial and it does not say this at all. > If I lndir /cdrom/ports /usr/ports, won't /usr/ports be a writeable > directory? So why the additional linking suggested in the handbook? There is not, to my knowledge, any additional linking suggested in the handbook but if you have a more exact URL, I'm more than willing to be proven wrong so that I can correct it. :-) -- - Jordan Hubbard FreeBSD core team / Walnut Creek CDROM.