This has been bugging me for some time, but I've never gotten around
to posting about it here before. Why doesn't the symlink get
overwritten, please? The behaviour I see below seems quite at odds to
the documentation in the man page (but then, perhaps I simply haven't
read the mapage properly ;)
# ln -s -f linux-2.6.15.1 linux
# ls -l
total 72
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 33712 Mar 30 2005 kernel.config.16.3.2005
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 30167 Oct 17 02:25 kernel.config.17.10.2005
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 Feb 7 08:01 linux -> linux-2.6.15-
gentoo-r1
drwxr-xr-x 19 root root 1320 Feb 7 08:01 linux-2.6.12-gentoo-r10
drwxr-xr-x 19 root root 1336 Nov 27 08:06 linux-2.6.14-gentoo-r2
drwxr-xr-x 20 root root 1392 Feb 9 07:34 linux-2.6.15-gentoo-r1
drwxr-xr-x 19 root root 712 Feb 9 07:25 linux-2.6.15.1
# rm linux
rm: remove symbolic link `linux'? y
807 /usr/src # ln -s -f linux-2.6.15.1 linux
808 /usr/src # ls -l
total 72
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 33712 Mar 30 2005 kernel.config.16.3.2005
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 30167 Oct 17 02:25 kernel.config.17.10.2005
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 14 Feb 9 07:37 linux -> linux-2.6.15.1
drwxr-xr-x 19 root root 1320 Feb 7 08:01 linux-2.6.12-gentoo-r10
drwxr-xr-x 19 root root 1336 Nov 27 08:06 linux-2.6.14-gentoo-r2
drwxr-xr-x 20 root root 1392 Feb 9 07:34 linux-2.6.15-gentoo-r1
drwxr-xr-x 19 root root 712 Feb 9 07:25 linux-2.6.15.1
#
TIA for any advices,
Stroller
--
gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
