[OpenIndiana-discuss] Massive numbers of man files, missing on 151a4

[Hans J. Albertsson]

No, that's not it: I thought of that possibility, but my /usr/local is 
just another directory /usr.
And where did the man files go??

I'm actually thinking I would have liked to be able to trace what 
updatemanager did, after the fact.

Still, I now know I must do a snapshot at every step of any fishy pkg stuff.

And I've got the files back, and things work. Next time I'll be more 
observant.

On 2012-05-07 14:50, openindiana-discuss-request at openindiana.org wrote:
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> Date: Mon, 07 May 2012 07:21:32 -0400
> From: James Carlson<carlsonj at workingcode.com>
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> Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Massive numbers of man files,
> 	missing on 151a4
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> Hans J. Albertsson wrote:
>> >  I  managed to determine (ocular inspection of "ls" in several snapshots)
>> >  that the only files missing were about 1200 man pages in man1, and the
>> >  entire /usr/local tree.
>> >  
>> >  And I think it must have happened as I removed the sfe version of
>> >  imagemagick.
> One way I've seen this sort of thing happen is when an administrator
> uses a symlink for a common directory (such as /usr/local), and a
> package delivers a directory entry for that same path.  The packaging
> system will happily blow the symlink away.
>
> If that's what you've been doing, I suggest using mounts instead of
> symlinks.  The simplest thing to do is to make /usr/local (or whatever
> is being symlink'd) be a separate zfs file system.  Alternatively, if
> separate file systems are not your taste for some reason, consider using
> a lofs mount.  (Of course, getting that mount in place at boot time may
>   be slightly tougher to do on a modern Open Indiana system, as zfs works
> outside of the /etc/vfstab scheme.)
>
> -- James Carlson 42.703N 71.076W <carlsonj at workingcode.com>