From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: erik quanstrom Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2011 06:08:01 -0400 To: 9fans@9fans.net Message-ID: <2a1dfb1de5e846fe21335de074595377@ladd.quanstro.net> In-Reply-To: References: <864o5ogspr.fsf@cmarib.ramside> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] wiki... Topicbox-Message-UUID: d2ff341a-ead6-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > > > > 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