Date: Tue, 5 Jul 2005 14:46:30 +0200 From: Leon Messner <lwlbsd@compuserve.de> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: steve lasiter <slas7713@yahoo.com> Subject: Re: accidental overwrite Message-ID: <20050705124629.GA2695@asterix.bsdserved.de> In-Reply-To: <20050704231717.88135.qmail@web33612.mail.mud.yahoo.com> References: <20050704231717.88135.qmail@web33612.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
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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
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