From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 28 11:30:50 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from peloton.runet.edu (peloton.runet.edu [137.45.96.205]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1396214D6F for ; Fri, 28 Jan 2000 11:30:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brett@peloton.runet.edu) Received: from localhost (brett@localhost) by peloton.runet.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA19374; Fri, 28 Jan 2000 14:30:26 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from brett@peloton.runet.edu) Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2000 14:30:26 -0500 (EST) From: Brett Taylor To: Tony Wells Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What are the differences? In-Reply-To: <3891C419.C0015543@journalstar.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, On Fri, 28 Jan 2000, Tony Wells wrote: > I guess I should also mention that you should back up any config files > before you delete a package you plan to upgrade, since if they're in > the packing list they will get blown away by a pkg_delete. If you find a port doing this, you should immediately mail freebsd-ports (and preferably submit a report via send-pr with a fix) as ports are NOT supposed to blow away configuration files! Brett ***************************************************** Dr. Brett Taylor brett@peloton.runet.edu * Dept of Chem and Physics * Curie 39A (540) 831-6147 * Dept. of Mathematics and Statistics * Walker 234 (540) 831-5410 * ***************************************************** To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message