I attempted to update my system using replica tonight, using glenda's pull script, but as bootes and from the file server console. What seems to have happened is that replica believed that every file ought to be deleted. I stopped it before it made it out of /sys/src, so my system is still usable.
Questions: - Why? - What can I do to avoid this in future? - Is there an easy way to get the files resynchronized with sources? If I try "replica/pull -v /dist/replica/network", it tells me sys/src/9/ip/devip.c: not replicated; will not update sys/src/9/pc/etherigbe.c: not replicated; will not update sys/src/9/pc/fns.h: not replicated; will not update etc. I just realized that I didn't have a writable /tmp, so the pull would have failed anyway, but I usually expect an error message in this case, not devastation. - Richard
