From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Sep 25 9:13:18 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk [193.237.89.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 582F0157FB for ; Sat, 25 Sep 1999 09:12:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk) Received: (from nik@localhost) by nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (8.9.3/8.9.3) id PAA78378; Sat, 25 Sep 1999 15:43:38 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from nik) Date: Sat, 25 Sep 1999 15:43:38 +0100 From: Nik Clayton To: Rajappa Iyer Cc: Chris Piazza , "Jordan K. Hubbard" , Bill Fumerola , Jaakko Salomaa , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: A new package fetching utility, pkg_get Message-ID: <19990925154338.A78022@catkin.nothing-going-on.org> References: <6939.938202872@localhost> <19990924140357.A71450@norn.ca.eu.org> <199909242208.SAA06980@panix.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: <199909242208.SAA06980@panix.com>; from Rajappa Iyer on Fri, Sep 24, 1999 at 06:08:15PM -0400 Organization: FreeBSD Project Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Sep 24, 1999 at 06:08:15PM -0400, Rajappa Iyer wrote: > 4. The number of times that I've had a random bug in the > {pre|post}{install|remove} scripts essentially render the system > unupgradeable is not funny. I have had to go and physically remove > some files and edit the package database by hand to get the system > back to some sane state. You have sent in PRs for the ports/packages where you've had this problem, right? N -- [intentional self-reference] can be easily accommodated using a blessed, non-self-referential dummy head-node whose own object destructor severs the links. -- Tom Christiansen in <375143b5@cs.colorado.edu> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message