Date: Wed, 09 Oct 2002 23:31:51 -0600 (MDT) From: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> To: tlambert2@mindspring.com Cc: drosih@rpi.edu, FreeBSD-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Do we still need portmap(8)? Message-ID: <20021009.233151.62255687.imp@bsdimp.com> In-Reply-To: <3DA50A3B.6E0521E6@mindspring.com> References: <p05111701b9ca84c308c3@[128.113.24.47]> <20021009.220112.82861653.imp@bsdimp.com> <3DA50A3B.6E0521E6@mindspring.com>
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Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> writes:
: "M. Warner Losh" wrote:
: > In message: <p05111701b9ca84c308c3@[128.113.24.47]>
: > Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> writes:
: > : I think most of us realize that we need a solution which can be
: > : automatically executed as part of every installworld or mergemaster
: > : run. The debate is over the most reasonable method of doing that.
: >
: > My suggestion would work, and would be a viable solution, so far the
: > only one presented in this whole silly thread.
:
: The mtree.obsolete approach is flawed, in that it's a delta
: without an anchor: it's all fine and good to delete things,
: when you know that it's a delta from/to. It's less fine, if
: you don't know where you are coming from.
Eh? If it doesn't exist, it won't be deleted.
: The other problem with an mtree.obsolete is that it assumes
: the the upgrade process completes successfully. This doesn't
: mean that it completes without an error in the upgrade process,
: it means that the resulting system functions.
It would be one of three: delete automatically, move automatically, do
nothing. Reasonable to me.
: The only safe way to do the delete is as part of a binary
: upgrade process (if you can't make it reversible, then make
: it so the forward process can't fail).
I disagree. That's no more or less safe than any other way. Or let
me rephrase, it is no less safe than a make installworld.
Warner
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