From owner-freebsd-ports Wed Jun 19 12:22:53 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from crucible.athame.co.uk (guru164.netsonic.fi [194.29.193.164]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4674B37B416 for ; Wed, 19 Jun 2002 12:22:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from amavis by crucible.athame.co.uk with scanned-ok (Exim 3.33 #1) id 17Kl2N-0002dQ-00 for ports@freebsd.org; Wed, 19 Jun 2002 22:22:39 +0300 Received: from zappa.athame.co.uk ([10.134.28.148]) by crucible.athame.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 17Kl1a-0002c7-00; Wed, 19 Jun 2002 22:21:50 +0300 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Andy Fawcett To: Christer Gundersen , ache@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD Port: apache13-1.3.26 Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2002 22:21:52 +0300 User-Agent: KMail/1.4.1 Cc: ports@freebsd.org References: <1024514033.6713.6.camel@carebears.net> In-Reply-To: <1024514033.6713.6.camel@carebears.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <200206192221.52433@zappa.athame.co.uk> X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS perl-11 at crucible.athame.co.uk Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wednesday 19 June 2002 22:13, Christer Gundersen wrote: > Hi! > > I dont know if this is a apache question og a "portupgrade" question, > but i try you anyway ;-) > > When Apache is upgraded(when it needs a new rebuid), the install will > delete the contens in /usr/local/www* , this is _very_ bad if you > have a lot of info here. > > What about a solution here? (I`m not a developer, so i cant help. > sorry) You can prevent the data and cgi-bin directories being wiped out by breaking the symlinks to the *-default directories, then creating data and cgi-bin as proper directories. IMO, the port sucks in this respect (having lost a months worth of work in the past because of it) Just create the dirs instead of symlinks, and all should be fine at the next portupgrade. A. -- Andy Fawcett | "In an open world without walls and fences, andy@athame.co.uk | we wouldn't need Windows and Gates." tap@lspace.org | -- anon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message