> > By the way, did anyone since 1998 of genromfs existence notice this
> > > part of Makefile that may cripple your system files ?!
> > >
> > > install-man:
> > > # genromfs 0.5 installed the man page in this file,
> > > # remove it before someone notices :)
> > > if [ -f $(PREFIX)$(bindir)/man8 ]; then \
> > > rm -f $(PREFIX)$(bindir)/man8; \
> > > fi
> > > mkdir -p $(PREFIX)$(mandir)/man8
> > > install -m 644 genromfs.8 $(PREFIX)$(mandir)/man8/
> > >
> > > Well I noticed that. It will not replace existing file not even delete
> > > the single file of interest it will delete whole man pages directory
> > > as part of install !!! Very funny :-(
> > >
> >
> > Are you sure? It looks like it removes the $bindir/man8 which is
> probably
> > /usr/local/bin/man8. Then it installs the manpages correctly at
> > $mandir/man8
>
> Well also $(bindir) is messed with $(mandir). I just removed that part
> in the patch :-)
>
> > That is probably okay.
>
> Far from okay to rm -rf anything as root without user knowledge
> especially at /usr location. Why not rm -rf / right away? :-)
>
> True, but it is not doing rm -rf, it is doing rm -f to remove a regular
> file named man8.
>
