Subject: "Curious" sup errors
To: current users <current-users@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Paul Goyette <paul@pgoyette.bdt.com>
List: current-users
Date: 03/25/1997 06:06:35
Folks,

I've been getting errors like the following from sup.  They started some
time ago, but the list of directories that it seems to want to delete is
growing.  I wouldn't worry too much about it, since the directories in
question (/ comes to mind) are unlikely to ever be empty (and therefore
deleteable), but I'm curious as to why sup thinks it ought to try...

SUP: Unable to delete directory src/usr.sbin/
SUP: Unable to delete directory src/lib/libc/arch/m68k/quad/
SUP: Unable to delete directory src/bin/rmail
SUP: Unable to delete directory src/
SUP: Unable to delete directory /

My sup control file looks like this (line breaks manually inserted for
readability):

current release=othersrc host=sup.NetBSD.ORG hostbase=/ftp/pub base=/usr \
	prefix=/usr compress backup use-rel-suffix delete
current release=security host=sup.NetBSD.ORG hostbase=/ftp/pub base=/usr \ 
	prefix=/usr compress backup use-rel-suffix delete
current release=doc host=sup.NetBSD.ORG hostbase=/ftp/pub base=/usr \
	prefix=/usr compress backup use-rel-suffix delete
current release=allsrc host=sup.NetBSD.ORG hostbase=/ftp/pub base=/usr \ 
	prefix=/usr compress backup use-rel-suffix delete

Any ideas, anyone?

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