Re: portupgrade system destruction?

From: Kris Kennaway (kris_at_obsecurity.org)
Date: 01/04/05

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To: Andrew Sinclair <syncman@optusnet.com.au>

    On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 04:04:02PM +0000, 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 occured in your case.

    Can you provide some evidence of these claims? I'm suspicious :-)

    Kris

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