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From: rone@bofh.noc.best.net (Ron Echeverri)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Removing leading path in FreeBSD Ports
Date: 22 Jan 1997 11:03:09 -0800
Organization: fidgety systems administrators gmbh
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In article <32E64DC1.41C67EA6@baynetworks.com>,
Robert Withrow <bwithrow@baynetworks.com> wrote:
>When I get a port from the FreeBSD web pages, the tar file
>has long leading paths like:
> pub/FreeBSD/FreeBSD-current/ports/mail/procmail/
>I try to keep things neat by keeping these ports in my
>own port directory, but I have to manually trim off
>the pub/FreeBSD/FreeBSD-current/ports part, which is annoying.
>Am I missing some nifty tar argument that would do this
>automatically? Is there some other way of dealing with
>this short of creative symlinks? Am I the only person
>who gets miffed about this? ;-)
I got miffed too, so i did this:
bofh# ls -l /usr/ports/pub/FreeBSD/FreeBSD-current/ports
lrwxrwxr-x 1 root wheel 10 Aug 31 00:00 /usr/ports/pub/FreeBSD/FreeBSD-current/ports@ -> /usr/ports
Works great ;)
rone
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