Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2010 19:27:17 +0100 From: Michal Varga <varga.michal@gmail.com> To: andrew clarke <mail@ozzmosis.com> Cc: FreeBSD Ports Mailing List <ports@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Portmaster 3.1 upgrade Message-ID: <1288549637.1553.14.camel@xenon> In-Reply-To: <20101031171808.GA22758@ozzmosis.com> References: <AANLkTimKKVeR_EsoDQv_3r%2B8hdh%2Ba9K_bAxWx4qi_cgW@mail.gmail.com> <20101031171808.GA22758@ozzmosis.com>
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On Mon, 2010-11-01 at 04:18 +1100, andrew clarke wrote: > > UPDATING should probably be amended upstream to correct this... > > Regards > Andrew While I'm certainly no authority on the issue, I think that's the wrong approach and generally (really not speaking about any specific case) - people, or in this case, system administrators, should know how to operate their working environment and don't just blindly enter commands "as they found them", without trying to understand what will happen next and/or how it will get interpreted. Otherwise we will keep ending with things like this particular example from UPDATING: 20100518: Please manually delete apache-2.\* if installed _before_ updating using either portmaster or portupgrade I think there's no need to explain why such "dumbing down" (even though in a good spirit) can lead to serious issues, or in this case - if someone actually tries to remove the "apache-2.\*" package, only to find there is no such thing. m. -- Michal Varga, Stonehenge (Gmail account)
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