From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Jul 13 19:15:03 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA29846 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Mon, 13 Jul 1998 19:15:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from fw.bby.com.au (ns.bby.com.au [192.83.119.129]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA29838 for ; Mon, 13 Jul 1998 19:14:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gnb@bby.com.au) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by fw.bby.com.au (8.8.8/8.6.9) id MAA10200 for ; Tue, 14 Jul 1998 12:14:52 +1000 (EST) Received: from melba.bby.com.au(192.43.186.1) via SMTP by fw.bby.com.au, id smtpd010198; Tue Jul 14 02:14:48 1998 Received: from lightning (lightning.bby.com.au [192.43.186.20]) by melba.bby.com.au (8.8.2/8.8.2) with ESMTP id MAA09677 for ; Tue, 14 Jul 1998 12:15:10 +1000 (EST) Message-Id: <199807140215.MAA09677@melba.bby.com.au> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.1 12/23/97 From: Gregory Bond To: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: sysinstall request: confirm overwrite! Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 14 Jul 1998 12:14:45 +1000 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Maybe I'm just stupid or something, but I got bit bad by sysinstall on the weekend. I wanted to load some of the source packages that I hadn't put on when i installed the system and sysinstall looked like the sensible way to do it. However, whether it's because I'm stupid or the interface sucks or I haven't Rd TFM right, what I _thought_ I was doing was adding the contrib and X sources. What I actually wound up doing was reinstalling the whole system, binaries, config files, source and all, as if from scratch. I noticed this when it started putting stuff into /etc and of course all sorts of things, including all my cvsup'd source, got overwritten/broken. Some time then spent in cleaning up all the /etc configs ... :< (Interesting data point: for CVSup to go from a CD-ROM 2.2.6 install to a -STABLE snapshot as of last weekend, for all sources except gnu & X, was about 10 minutes.) I doubt I'm the first person to do this and I'm probably not the stupidist or least experienced system admin to ever run FreeBSD, so it would be a Good Thing if sysinstall could notice that you are about to overwrite stuff and ask permission first.... Greg. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message