Date: Wed, 6 May 1998 18:32:34 -0400 (EDT) From: Tim Vanderhoek <ac199@hwcn.org> To: Snob Art Genre <benedict@echonyc.com> Cc: "Ron G. Minnich" <rminnich@Sarnoff.COM>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: an interesting problem with pkg_add Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980506182245.248F-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.3.96.980505125137.22120B-100000@echonyc.com>
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On Tue, 5 May 1998, Snob Art Genre wrote: > I had this happen to me back in the days of 2.1.5, only it was just my > home directory that got eaten. > > JKH assured me that the bug was fixed in 2.1.6. :-( I recall a similar personal assurance, once. We should start a big signing club or something. ;-) I actually managed to run into two of the directory trashing bugs, but after the first one I learnt my lesson and always ran pkg_add(1) in an empty dir, so the 2nd was pretty harmless. [Never did report that 2nd either, come to think of it]. That's what the backup switch on your hdd is for, folks! :) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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