From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 28 12:14:32 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from trinity.lee.net (trinity.lee.net [208.229.121.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A3AE15E72 for ; Fri, 28 Jan 2000 12:14:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from awells@journalstar.com) Received: from journalstar.com (leepcD-005.sub-d.lee.net [208.205.127.5]) by trinity.lee.net (8.9.3/8.9.0) with ESMTP id OAA26662 for ; Fri, 28 Jan 2000 14:14:18 -0600 Message-ID: <3891FA59.F91CF20@journalstar.com> Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2000 14:21:45 -0600 From: Tony Wells X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.0-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What are the differences? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Brett Taylor wrote: > > 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! You're completely right. I'm always just paranoid about using any command with the word 'delete' in it. > > 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message