Date: Wed, 23 May 2007 18:19:43 +0100 From: RW <fbsd06@mlists.homeunix.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: "portmanager -s" deletes ports? Message-ID: <20070523181943.1a97605c@gumby.homeunix.com.> In-Reply-To: <20070524002531.3cd65668@localhost> References: <46529E35.7080401@ant.uni-bremen.de> <20070523031505.3071bc9b@gumby.homeunix.com.> <4653F303.2000302@ant.uni-bremen.de> <20070524002531.3cd65668@localhost>
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On Thu, 24 May 2007 00:25:31 +1000 Norberto Meijome <freebsd@meijome.net> wrote: > On Wed, 23 May 2007 09:53:39 +0200 > Heinrich Rebehn <rebehn@ant.uni-bremen.de> wrote: > > > This is weird! A program that is supposed to show the *status* of > > installed ports should never arbitrarily *remove* ports. > > I agree that is not clear why it is removing ports without warning. Well, we don't actually know that. I suspect that there was a warning, but it went to stdout and was eaten by "|grep OLD". Portmanger then waited for a y/n response for 5 minutes, and went with the default of deleting the port.
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