On Tue, 31 Dec 2002, joerch wrote:

> http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/December/Features605.html
>
> can someone tell me is that a clean and safe way to update ?

I am not sure why I didn't notice this problem before with this article,
but the "tar xzf" should have the "p" option also for preserving
permissions.

   Jeremy C. Reed
   http://bsd.reedmedia.net/