Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2014 02:05:49 +0100 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl> Cc: "William A. Mahaffey III" <wam@hiwaay.net>, FreeBSD Questions !!!! <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Stupid question .... Message-ID: <20141230020549.cc26aa46.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <20141230005702.GB2910@slackbox.erewhon.home> References: <54A1E9D4.60504@hiwaay.net> <20141230005702.GB2910@slackbox.erewhon.home>
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On Tue, 30 Dec 2014 01:57:02 +0100, Roland Smith wrote: > On Mon, Dec 29, 2014 at 05:55:00PM -0600, William A. Mahaffey III wrote: > > > > > > .... I have been doing 'pkg upgrades' from an rxvt shell window for > > months now. They have been going mostly OK, with a few rectifiable > > glitches. Is it better/recommended to do so from the 'console' CLI, i.e. > > no desktop, no XFCE, etc., just plain login shell ? just checking .... > > I don't think pkg will care much what kind of terminal it runs on. Or what > shell for that matter. I think the primary concern here is the observation that during a "pkg upgrade", the binaries (and other files) corresponding to the programs currently running will be overwritten. This _might_ caus problems when the in-memory image of a program doesn't "match" its on-disk counterpart (for example, for loading additional stuff), but in fact, I've never experienced this - I tend to use pkg from within a normal X terminal (xterm). -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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