From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jun 6 07:17:25 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id HAA03357 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 6 Jun 1996 07:17:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from expo.x.org (expo.x.org [198.112.45.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id HAA03349 for ; Thu, 6 Jun 1996 07:17:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from exalt.x.org by expo.x.org id AA07107; Thu, 6 Jun 96 10:16:27 -0400 Received: from localhost by exalt.x.org id KAA11572; Thu, 6 Jun 1996 10:16:26 -0400 Message-Id: <199606061416.KAA11572@exalt.x.org> To: Michael Smith Cc: hackers@freefall.FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: New nit in 2.2-960501-SNAP In-Reply-To: Your message of Thu, 06 Jun 1996 23:45:50 +0930. <199606061415.XAA17499@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Organization: X Consortium Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 06 Jun 1996 10:16:25 EST From: "Kaleb S. KEITHLEY" Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > Hmmm. Never mind. Dunno why the --unlink didn't delete all the > > symlinks left over in /usr/share/locale from 2.1 and earlier. > > Thus the de_DE.ISO_8859-1 LC_TIME file got dumped into the old > > lt_LN.ISO_8859-1 directory. > ... > > Are you going to tell me that sysinstall would have taken care > > of this if I had used it? > > Yes. It uses an advanced external utility called 'newfs' which has shown > a close-to-100% success rate at removing symlinks. > > 8) You know, I don't find this sort of crap to be very helpful. Good thing I'm not paying for it. I would have been really unhappy if I had run sysinstall and it had newfs'd my disk. REALLY unhappy. -- Kaleb KEITHLEY X Consortium