> > > > 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
