From owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 10 16:35:26 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 55CF216A4CE; Mon, 10 May 2004 16:35:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from lakermmtao10.cox.net (lakermmtao10.cox.net [68.230.240.29]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 83E4243D45; Mon, 10 May 2004 16:35:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mezz7@cox.net) Received: from mezz.mezzweb.com ([68.103.32.140]) by lakermmtao10.cox.net (InterMail vM.6.01.03.02 201-2131-111-104-20040324) with ESMTP id <20040510233523.CTCC18696.lakermmtao10.cox.net@mezz.mezzweb.com>; Mon, 10 May 2004 19:35:23 -0400 Date: Mon, 10 May 2004 18:36:12 -0500 To: Adam Weinberger References: <200405102310.i4ANAScY040094@freefall.freebsd.org> <20040510231734.GR15500@toxic.magnesium.net> From: Jeremy Messenger Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=iso-8859-1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20040510231734.GR15500@toxic.magnesium.net> User-Agent: Opera7.23/Linux M2 build 518 cc: gnome@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ports/66439: portupgrade -R pilot-link-0.11.8_2 fails with latest cvsup X-BeenThere: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: GNOME for FreeBSD -- porting and maintaining List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 10 May 2004 23:35:26 -0000 On Mon, 10 May 2004 19:17:34 -0400, Adam Weinberger wrote: > I clearly remember spending over a week going through this exact problem > with you months and months ago. Here's old thread: http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/htdig/freebsd-gnome/2004-February/005101.html Cheers, Mezz > After about 10 thousand emails from me saying the same thing over and > over, you admitted that you may have been creating users with > /nonexistent as their $HOME because that's what you saw listed in stuff > for ports. > > Ports didn't create that directory. > > You did. > > The behaviour of the ports is exactly as it should be. It's kindof > ridiculous to create a directory named /nonexistent, when the name > clearly implies that it shouldn't exist. > > # Adam > > > -- > Adam Weinberger > adamw@magnesium.net || adamw@FreeBSD.org > adamw@vectors.cx || adamw@gnome.org > http://www.vectors.cx > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-gnome > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-gnome-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -- mezz7@cox.net - mezz@FreeBSD.org bsdforums.org 's moderator, mezz.