On Sun, Feb 12, 2017 at 02:05:26PM +1100, Dave Horsfall wrote: > Me again :-) I finally got around to following the notes that David > Wolfskill kindly provided (thanks!) and apart from some oddity about > "httpd" requiring a missing "libdb-4.2.so.2" (which will get rebuilt > anyway), I'm a bit wary of this: > > 7. Back up any files in /usr/local that you wish to save [...] > 8. Manually check /usr/local [...] to make sure that they are really > empty. > > Errm, why? Is it going to clean out /usr/local from under my feet? If > so, then that's a bit rude... Because of disk space limitations, I've got > /usr/ports -> /usr/local/ports (/usr/local is a separate file system). > And then there's all my private stuff... I think it means "save any local > configuration files etc"; if so, it could be better phrased. > ....
My interpretation is that the concerning directives (copied form the tail end of the portmaster(8) man page) are referring to subdirectories of /usr/local that installation of ports may modify -- e.g, bin, etc, lib, libexec, sbin; probably a few others. I have no reason to belive that /usr/local/ports will be harmed... at least, unless something goes wrong. :-/ Peace, david -- David H. Wolfskill [email protected] How could one possibly "respect" a misogynist, racist, bullying con-man??!? See http://www.catwhisker.org/~david/publickey.gpg for my public key.
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