Re: [9fans] suicide message on vmware

[erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>]

On Fri Jun  6 11:26:13 EDT 2014, bakul@bitblocks.com wrote:
>
> > On Jun 5, 2014, at 8:15 PM, Ramakrishnan Muthukrishnan <vu3rdd@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I just saw a suicide message on 9atom running on plan9 while updating
> > the system:
> >
> > % replica/pull -v /dist/replica/network
>
> I missed that you were running 9atom. Using old binaries to copy the new kernel to /n/9fat and rebooting means now you're running the bell labs kernel. I don't know how different the two kernels are but if you want to continue running 9atom everything, you may have to undo nsec related changes in the userland.
>
> More generally, as this nsec change demonstrates, if you rely on sources over which you have no control & you also have local changes, you pretty much have to treat the external sources as a "vendor branch" and do a careful merge to avoid such surprises.

that's not how replica works.  replica respects local changes.  however,
since in this case two different databases were mixed up, there is little
chance that the user has a sane system.

- erik