From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Feb 5 13:49:27 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id NAA28478 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 5 Feb 1996 13:49:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from eel.dataplex.net (EEL.DATAPLEX.NET [199.183.109.245]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA28452 Mon, 5 Feb 1996 13:49:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from [199.183.109.242] (cod [199.183.109.242]) by eel.dataplex.net (8.6.11/8.6.9) with SMTP id PAA07099; Mon, 5 Feb 1996 15:48:55 -0600 X-Sender: rkw@shark.dataplex.net Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Mon, 5 Feb 1996 15:48:59 -0600 To: John Polstra From: Richard Wackerbarth Subject: Re: sup is broken? Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org, stable@FreeBSD.org Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Jordan wrote: >> PLEASE DON'T USE SUP.FREEBSD.ORG TO UPDATE YOURSELF! John Polstra replied: >Last night, after reading your latest admonition against using >sup.freebsd.org, I tried again to use sup2. As soon as it connected >up, it began systematically deleting the files in my sup tree, >shamelessly announcing each deletion as it went about its sordid >business. To all appearances, it had the intention of deleting my >entire tree. So I killed it, and once again went back to >sup.freebsd.org, which always works just fine for me, thank you. > >When I try an experiment, and that experiment attempts to delete >220 MB of my files, I lose my thirst for adventure very quickly. >Nevertheless, if you or somebody else can give me some clue about >how to switch to a different sup server without losing all my >perfectly good files, I'll try again. As I have pointed out, the cvs tree that I am getting from sup2 also seems to have problems. As a result, my distribution in the name of -stable, reflects the same condition. We MUST get these problems fixed or we all will be forced to "look to the source" for correct data. ---- Richard Wackerbarth rkw@dataplex.net