On Monday, 7 October 2002 at 20:07:37 -0400, Daniel Eischen wrote: > On Tue, 8 Oct 2002, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > >> I think we can greatly simplify things with one firm but relatively >> bearable rule: >> >> The directories /bin, /usr/bin, /sbin, /usr/sbin, <insert others >> here> are for the exclusive use of the system installer. Install >> other programs here at your peril: they will be overwritten on the >> next installation. >> >> There are then dozens of ways of finding the old files and removing >> them. I'd be inclined just to remove all files in those directories >> which are older than some file in the build tree--*after* a successful >> installation. >> >> Thoughts? > > I don't think doing this by default is a good idea. Sometimes I > like to preseve previous versions of things, knowing that they > work.
Nothing's stopping you saving them first.. > I'd prefer this as a job for mergemaster, asking you confirmation > for each binary. I'd much rather not have to do *anything* manually. That includes updating /etc, but that's a much larger can of worms. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
