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Date:      Mon, 8 Nov 2004 22:55:04 +0100
From:      Oliver Lehmann <lehmann@ans-netz.de>
To:        Edwin Groothuis <edwin@mavetju.org>
Cc:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: no cvs port?
Message-ID:  <20041108225504.0bdeb42c.lehmann@ans-netz.de>
In-Reply-To: <20041108213832.GO1057@k7.mavetju>
References:  <20041107115900.613aa2f4.lehmann@ans-netz.de> <200411081430.59722.michaelnottebrock@gmx.net> <20041108210731.GN1057@k7.mavetju> <200411082226.35423.michaelnottebrock@gmx.net> <20041108213832.GO1057@k7.mavetju>

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Edwin Groothuis wrote:

> [OVERWRITE_BASE OPTION yes or no]
>
> and stay vulnerable? How many people keep running old name servers
> when they don't mention it in /etc/rc.conf after an reboot?

How many people do install such things from ports w/o knowing to toggle
/etc/rc.conf? How many of those users know the OVERWRITE_BASE option? And
how many of them knows that their installation will be gone after they
upgrade once more their world (from binary, or from source w/o setting the
appropriate switch in make.conf). And when their installation is gone,
they are left with a "some kind of damaged" pkgdb (because of non-matching
checksums). Questions over questions... and I won't speak for others, just
for myself when I say I don't really like that option. Isn't even your
port installation gone when you are upgrading from CD? (I never did it)

-- 
 Oliver Lehmann
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