Date: Mon, 3 Jul 1995 08:54:09 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami) Cc: jbeukema@HK.Super.NET, hackers@FreeBSD.org, jkh@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: damaged file system Message-ID: <199507030654.IAA03146@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199507030453.VAA02512@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU> from "Satoshi Asami" at Jul 2, 95 09:53:46 pm
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As Satoshi Asami wrote: > > * I am missing /etc/rc now (and who knows what else). To see whether I can > * avoid reinstalling the entire binary distribution, can someone send me a > * copy by mail. I have the sources so I will try and make world after > * getting up multi-user. I suggest someone who understands pkg_add check > * out the cern_httpd one. > > I don't claim to understand pkg_add (only Jordan does :) but I can't > see why pkg_add can damage the filesystem like that, the cern_httpd > package is just a "regular" package without any fancy frills or > anything. (I just tried the 2.0.5 package on our development machine > (thud), it went fine without destroying anything.) pkg_add used to remove the temp files after a failure. I think this is done by an rm -f (usually run by root). A single space somewhere in a PLIST file caused me to trash my entire /usr/local once. It's not impossible that there are further hidden gotchas. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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