Date: Thu, 24 May 2007 00:25:31 +1000 From: Norberto Meijome <freebsd@meijome.net> To: Heinrich Rebehn <rebehn@ant.uni-bremen.de> Cc: RW <fbsd06@mlists.homeunix.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: "portmanager -s" deletes ports? Message-ID: <20070524002531.3cd65668@localhost> In-Reply-To: <4653F303.2000302@ant.uni-bremen.de> References: <46529E35.7080401@ant.uni-bremen.de> <20070523031505.3071bc9b@gumby.homeunix.com.> <4653F303.2000302@ant.uni-bremen.de>
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On Wed, 23 May 2007 09:53:39 +0200
Heinrich Rebehn <rebehn@ant.uni-bremen.de> wrote:
> This is weird! A program that is supposed to show the *status* of
> installed ports should never arbitrarily *remove* ports.
I agree that is not clear why it is removing ports without warning.
> I consider this
> a severe bug. Luckily, this was on a server system where X11 is not
> crucial. I really don't want to imagine the hassle i would have had if
> portmanager had removed exim or apache or samba or ...
I think the chances of that ever happening are pretty low - do you think any of
them would get removed from ports? The fact that xorg-manpages was being
orphaned is clearly documented in kris@ entry in ports/UPDATING.
the solution is simple, dont use that tool , at least in the form you are using
it.
Regards,
B
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