On Tue, 8 Oct 2002, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > 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..
In the same directory. > > 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. Well, then try fixing the tool so it's not as manual. I'd rather be presented with a list of things that have changed, and a way to select all or none, or enter a submenu for finer-grained control of what gets removed/updated (generalizing). I could imagine an option on mergemaster that removed old binaries without prompting. -- Dan Eischen To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
