From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 5 12:46:33 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3276D16A41C for ; Tue, 5 Jul 2005 12:46:33 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from elon@zwelf.in-dsl.de) Received: from zwelf.in-dsl.de (zwelf.in-dsl.de [217.197.85.214]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D17F743D49 for ; Tue, 5 Jul 2005 12:46:32 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from elon@zwelf.in-dsl.de) Received: from elon by zwelf.in-dsl.de with local (Exim 4.20) id 1Dpmoo-0000jW-0e; Tue, 05 Jul 2005 12:46:30 +0000 Date: Tue, 5 Jul 2005 14:46:30 +0200 From: Leon Messner To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20050705124629.GA2695@asterix.bsdserved.de> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, steve lasiter References: <20050704231717.88135.qmail@web33612.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050704231717.88135.qmail@web33612.mail.mud.yahoo.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Cc: steve lasiter Subject: Re: accidental overwrite X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 05 Jul 2005 12:46:33 -0000 On Mon, Jul 04, 2005 at 04:17:17PM -0700, steve lasiter wrote: > > My question(s) are: Is there any way to revert back to > the original file if this type of mistake is made? If > not is there anyway to get just that one file without > having to do a complete removal and installation? And > finally, is the only way to NOT do this again is to > use the appropriate flags with cp? Hi, i suppose you could either get the right package version and untar/gunzip it or go into the port directory of mysql and do a "make extract" which creates the subdir "work" in which you find the ports files and dirs but pay attention to the right port version here as well. HTH, Leon -- gnupg key ID: 9B820836 & Fingerprint: 6081 8F41 8FEC 0D69 DB98 F014 0FD4 B47D 9B82 0836