On Fri, Jul 08, 2005 at 01:31:13PM +0200, viq wrote: > didn't you by accident untar them to /usr instead of /usr/src ? I did that > once, and overwrote system binaries. [...]
Happened to me as well, and I know of at least two other people who have done the same. It really looks like it is not intuitive that the src.tar.gz does not contain a top-level 'src' directory. Most tar-files provide a top-level directory (in contrast to .zip where you always need to look with unzip -v). Also, 'ports.tar.gz' does contain a 'ports' top-level directory, so OpenBSD is somewhat inconsistent with their taring strategy. ;-) Would it be a big change, if 'src.tar.gz' would contain such a directory? I know that everybody does this mistake only once, and that it is well documented. Still it is a common trap that I would like to see removed. Bernd
