From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jun 6 07:49:21 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id HAA06344 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 6 Jun 1996 07:49:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id HAA06337 for ; Thu, 6 Jun 1996 07:49:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id AAA17592; Fri, 7 Jun 1996 00:42:55 +0930 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199606061512.AAA17592@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: New nit in 2.2-960501-SNAP To: kaleb@x.org (Kaleb S. KEITHLEY) Date: Fri, 7 Jun 1996 00:42:54 +0930 (CST) Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, hackers@freefall.FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199606061416.KAA11572@exalt.x.org> from "Kaleb S. KEITHLEY" at Jun 6, 96 10:16:25 am MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Kaleb S. KEITHLEY stands accused of saying: > > 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. It's called humour. It's something that lots of people _do_ pay for, and I offered it _free_, in the hope that you might raise a smile over it. > I would have been really unhappy if I had run sysinstall and it had > newfs'd my disk. REALLY unhappy. You do get upset easily though. 8( The point being that sysinstall _asks_ if you want to newfs your filesystems, indvidually, so you can toast the ones with the old OS on them, and leave the ones with your data. I can't think of any more reasonable way of doing it. It's certainly not reasonable to expect it to second-guess every possible change that might have been made to the system and intelligently remove/move/update things. That's _seriously_ hard work. It sounds like what you found is a legitimate bogon for the 'upgrade' case if sysinstall doesn't handle it properly. Jordan? > Kaleb KEITHLEY -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] Collector of old Unix hardware. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[