From owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 3 07:47:35 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 09AEB16A4BF for ; Wed, 3 Sep 2003 07:47:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from procyon.firepipe.net (procyon.firepipe.net [198.78.66.151]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9446B43F85 for ; Wed, 3 Sep 2003 07:47:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from will@csociety.org) Received: by procyon.firepipe.net (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 6234B260B5; Wed, 3 Sep 2003 07:47:34 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2003 07:47:34 -0700 From: Will Andrews To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20030903144734.GZ47671@procyon.firepipe.net> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org References: <20030903143948.GA61515@gattaca.yadt.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030903143948.GA61515@gattaca.yadt.co.uk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Subject: Re: (proposal) new flag for pkg_delete X-BeenThere: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion related to FreeBSD architecture List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2003 14:47:35 -0000 On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 03:39:48PM +0100, David Taylor wrote: > It fails to mention that if -f is specified it will also delete any files > where the MD5 checksum is incorrect. I have now been repeatedly bitten by > portupgrade wiping my configuration information because it specifies -f > (as it must, in order to remove packages which are still 'in use' by other > packages). Wrong way to fix the problem. Make the ports install sample config files and only add those to the plist, not the actual ones. Regards, -- wca