From owner-freebsd-ports Fri Sep 18 19:05:46 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA28258 for freebsd-ports-outgoing; Fri, 18 Sep 1998 19:05:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: (from hoek@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA28245; Fri, 18 Sep 1998 19:05:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hoek) Message-ID: <19980918190526.A27515@freebsd.org> Date: Fri, 18 Sep 1998 19:05:26 -0700 From: Tim Vanderhoek To: Archie Cobbs , Tim Vanderhoek Cc: fieber@indiana.edu, marquis@roble.com, ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sshd References: <19980918185728.A248@mrmell> <199809182332.QAA20213@bubba.whistle.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: <199809182332.QAA20213@bubba.whistle.com>; from Archie Cobbs on Fri, Sep 18, 1998 at 04:32:36PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, Sep 18, 1998 at 04:32:36PM -0700, Archie Cobbs wrote: > > Can you give an example where pkg_delete_im_gonna_upgrade_now != > pkg_delete_for_ever ? What does pkg_delete_im_gonna_upgrade_now mean > exactly? Configuration files. Saved games directories. Certain data files. pkg_delete_im_gonna_upgrade_now does not delete these files. > I would think pkg_delete_for_ever should be the default. You may argue for a default once there is a choice between two options. :) > All stuff that wants to go in /etc should go in /usr/local/etc and/or > /usr/local/etc/rc.d instead. Like /etc/passwd? > > A (probably) surprising number of ports will legitimately require > > a read-write /. > > Then the port has a bug, IMHO (oh well, MHO never counted for much.. :-) YHO is wrong. :) -- Me. Who'd you think wrote this? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message