On Fri, Apr 02, 1999 at 01:58:27PM -0600, Bob Nestor wrote:

> Just in case anyone else has a local distfiles directory on their system 
> as a result of building some packages, make sure you have it backed up 
> before running sup!  Mine just got deleted due to the directory move.

That happened to me a while back. The solution was to use, say, /usr/safe/
and have /usr/pkgsrc/distfiles be a symbolic link to that.

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