Re: portupgrade system destruction?

2005-01-04 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 04:04:02PM +, Andrew Sinclair wrote: Portupgrade makes a mess at the best of times. A recursive portupgrade is not so clever about dependencies, particually on a live system. On occasion, it even seems to tamper with core libraries which is what would have

Re: portupgrade system destruction?

2005-01-04 Thread Andrew Sinclair
Kris Kennaway wrote: On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 04:04:02PM +, Andrew Sinclair wrote: Portupgrade makes a mess at the best of times. A recursive portupgrade is not so clever about dependencies, particually on a live system. On occasion, it even seems to tamper with core libraries which is

Re: portupgrade system destruction?

2005-01-03 Thread Andrew Sinclair
Moved to freebsd-questions by Andrew Sinclair. Eric Anderson wrote: I have a few dedicated servers at a hosting company (about 3 hours drive time away). On one of the systems I ran a 'portupgrade -arR' this morning, and then disconnected (I ran it in a screen session). About an hour later, I