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Date:      Tue, 4 Jan 2005 12:56:43 -0800
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Andrew Sinclair <syncman@optusnet.com.au>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: portupgrade system destruction?
Message-ID:  <20050104205643.GC13991@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <41DABE72.2000501@optusnet.com.au>
References:  <41DA0AB8.3080400@centtech.com> <41DABE72.2000501@optusnet.com.au>

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On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 04:04:02PM +0000, Andrew Sinclair wrote:

> Portupgrade makes a mess at the best of times. A recursive portupgrade=20
> is not so clever about dependencies, particually on a live system. On=20
> occasion, it even seems to tamper with core libraries which is what=20
> would have occured in your case.

Can you provide some evidence of these claims?  I'm suspicious :-)

Kris
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