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From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>
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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/pkg_install/delete perform.c
In-Reply-To: <26517.947620979@zippy.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at "Jan 11, 2000 12:02:59 pm"
To: jkh@zippy.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard)
Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2000 13:01:51 -0800 (PST)
Cc: asmodai@bart.nl (Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven),
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> > I installed a number of ports and when I wanted to upgrade I just cd'd
> > into /var/db/pkg and pkg_delete'd the appropriate port.
Note     ^^^^^^^^^^^ not /var/db/pkg/pkg_name_im_about_to_delete

> 
> Hahahaha.  That's pretty funny, and yes, that would certainly do it.
> I forget that people do things as silly as this sometimes.
> 
> Think about it, Jeroen.  You're in a directory which is about to be
> wiped out by the act of package deleting the package, a directory
> there is *absolutely no need* to cd into first unless you get your
            ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

There may be no need, but there is a great speed advantage to cd'ing
to /var/db/pkg and running pkg_delete from there.  It's called
filename completion.  I do this all the time.  And no, it won't
trigger the ``We aren't in Kansas anymore'' message.

> kicks from yanking out the rug you're standing on. :-)

It really bugged me when this started to happen in unix:
gndrsh:rgrimes {149}% cd /tmp
gndrsh:rgrimes {150}% mkdir r
gndrsh:rgrimes {151}% cd r
gndrsh:rgrimes {152}% rmdir .
rmdir: .: Invalid argument
gndrsh:rgrimes {153}% (cd ..; rmdir r)
gndrsh:rgrimes {154}% pwd
pwd: .: No such file or directory

The restriction on rmdir . is totally bogus stupid crap, as you can see
it is easy to get around this bug :-)

-- 
Rod Grimes - KD7CAX @ CN85sl - (RWG25)               rgrimes@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net


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