ports/88027: portupgrade removes symlinks that point to real location of config directories

[Pav Lucistnik]

The following reply was made to PR ports/88027; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Pav Lucistnik <pav at FreeBSD.org>
To: bug-followup at FreeBSD.org
Cc:  
Subject: Re: ports/88027: portupgrade removes symlinks that point to real
	location of config directories
Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 11:13:23 +0100

 I think this is not how you're supposed to use symlinks. If you touch
 area under /usr/local by hand, you should expect to know what's
 happening and cope with it.
 
 What's happening, most probably, on portupgrade squid:
 1) it deletes old squid. because /usr/local/squid is part of plist,
    it removes this directory (ie. your symlink) too
 2) it installs new squid into /usr/local
 
 What you really want is to install squid into different PREFIX.
 
 -- 
 Pav Lucistnik <pav at oook.cz>
               <pav at FreeBSD.org>
 
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