On Monday, 7 October 2002 at 21:18:10 -0400, Daniel Eischen wrote: > 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.
Nothing's stopping you doing whatever you want, ultimately. I'm looking for the solution to the 99% case. >>> 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. Well, we used to have a tool which is automatic. I'd like to get back there. > 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). As I said, I'd rather not have to do *anything* manually. 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
