From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] wiki...
Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2011 06:08:01 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2a1dfb1de5e846fe21335de074595377@ladd.quanstro.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <F1526933-9933-482E-AFFF-64D23C94EBA9@fastmail.fm>
> >
> > I had sources go down in the middle of contrib/install'ing tex. Now
> > THAT was frustrating. contrib(1) doesn't handle partially installed
> > packages very well at all. Say, where is the canonical community bug
> > tracker for Plan 9, anyway?
>
> Contrib doesn't handle many unexpected things well, don't use it in
> 9vx if root is on the host filesystem.
don't blame replica for the fact that 9vx's default root is strange.
maybe you should blame 9vx.
> IIRC it's based on replica(1)
> which rather requires ideal circumstances for correct behaviour.
partial installs are easy to recover from. i just used it friday to sort
out a file system that had a contrib package listed as installed, but it
hadn't been.
- erik
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-04-24 10:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-04-23 4:43 Ethan Grammatikidis
2011-04-23 5:05 ` pmarin
2011-04-24 4:48 ` smiley
2011-04-24 5:13 ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2011-04-24 8:16 ` hiro
2011-04-26 6:30 ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2011-05-04 11:40 ` Balwinder S Dheeman
2011-05-04 15:37 ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2011-05-04 16:11 ` dexen deVries
2011-05-04 20:26 ` smiley
2011-05-05 9:54 ` Balwinder S Dheeman
2011-05-05 12:38 ` erik quanstrom
2011-04-24 10:08 ` erik quanstrom [this message]
2011-04-24 14:11 ` [9fans] contrib(1) WAS: wiki smiley
2011-04-24 15:50 ` erik quanstrom
2011-04-24 20:52 ` smiley
2011-04-24 20:58 ` Federico G. Benavento
2011-04-24 23:09 ` smiley
2011-04-25 1:13 ` erik quanstrom
2011-04-25 13:29 ` smiley
2011-04-24 17:17 ` Iruatã Souza
2011-04-24 17:56 ` Yaroslav
2011-04-24 10:16 ` [9fans] wiki erik quanstrom
2011-04-24 18:15 ` Richard Miller
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-06-07 13:02 [9fans] acme design (long) cej
2004-06-07 13:52 ` Russ Cox
2004-06-07 23:30 ` bs
2004-06-08 5:40 ` [9fans] wiki vdharani
2004-06-08 3:28 ` Russ Cox
2004-01-25 14:09 David Presotto
2001-02-02 14:49 [9fans] Wiki Ish Rattan
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