From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed May 6 15:38:01 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA06668 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Wed, 6 May 1998 15:38:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from localhost.my.domain (ppp7257.on.bellglobal.com [206.172.249.225]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA06578 for ; Wed, 6 May 1998 15:37:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ac199@hwcn.org) Received: from localhost (tim@localhost) by localhost.my.domain (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id SAA01244; Wed, 6 May 1998 18:32:34 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from ac199@hwcn.org) X-Authentication-Warning: localhost.my.domain: tim owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 6 May 1998 18:32:34 -0400 (EDT) From: Tim Vanderhoek X-Sender: tim@localhost Reply-To: ac199@hwcn.org To: Snob Art Genre cc: "Ron G. Minnich" , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: an interesting problem with pkg_add In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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