Ok thks Manuel,
that reassures me somewhat. It actually wiped, eterm, gv,
windowmaker and xscreensaver that I have discovered
so far.

It's good that it intended to rebuild these things but
my goodness I didn't expect days of downtime for these
bits of my system to be rebuilt. From home on a slow
link with as ss5 it could be days before these things
are back. I love NetBSD but mein got it spins me out
sometimes.

Also since I can't keep the net connection up for too
long I had to disconnect last night before bed and then
of course the mozilla build stopped when it couldn't
download the next thing it needed.

My question is if I type "make update" in www/mozilla
will it remember that it blew away 5 applications and
rebuild them?, or will I have to rebuild them all manually
since the build last night was interrupted?


Thanks Manuel,
cheers,
Paul.





Manuel Bouyer wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 10:46:48PM +1100, Paul NCC/CS wrote:
> > Hi Folks,
> >
> > I went to build mozilla on the ss5 and soon enough it
> > said that some package needed updating. I went to that
> > directory and typed "make update". All was fine and it's
> > been building ever since.
> >
> > Then I discovered that ghostview and Eterm binaries
> > have been wiped from the system!!!
> >
> > I guess these gv  and eterm apps had dependencies that
> > needed to be updated for the mozilla build  and then gv
> > and eterm were therefore themselves deleted?
> >
> > Does that sound right to you guys?
> > I thought it would leave my existing binaries alone?
>
> Well, because of dependancy it may delete binaries, but will then rebuild
> and reinstall them with updated dependancies.
>
> --
> Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
>      NetBSD: 23 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
> --

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