Re: [Ethereal-dev] problem w/ Solaris 9 package

[Jeff Morriss <jeff.morriss@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

[Resending because my last attempt got stuck on one of the bad DNS entries.]

jramnani@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> I just installed the most recent version of ethereal (.99) from your web
> site (http://www.ethereal.com/download.html).  I used the package you have
> provided for Solaris.  However, when I installed the package, it removed
> and replaced everything I had in /usr/local in /usr/local/share.
>
> Please update your package for Solaris.  I'm afraid that you have an "rm"
> statement in your package file.  This hurts b/c it just wiped out 2 years
> of stuff I had in /usr/local.  My lack of backups isn't your fault, but
> please update the package, so more people don't experience what I did…

Hmm, I haven't used the 0.99.0 Solaris package yet, but I've used many
previous versions and didn't have a problem (and I don't think anything
has changed; I certainly don't think thre's an "rm -rf" or anything like
that in there).

Note that the SVR4 packages _do_ contain entries for the directories
"/usr/local/", "/usr/local/bin/", "/usr/local/share/", etc.  If you
previously had symlinks for some or all of those directories, I suppose
it's possible that the installation would convert them to real
directories, thus making it look like your files were all lost.  Is it
possible that's what happened?  (In which case all your work's not lost,
just the symbolic link was.)