At 10:55 AM +0930 10/8/02, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: >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: > >>> 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.
If we are talking about something which will be run, by default, for every person every time they do a 'make installworld', then I think that solution must be a more user-friendly. You're trying to solve a problem where you got an out-of-date man page. That is hardly a crisis. I'm trying to avoid the problem where 'installworld' blows away some important file on a user -- when it had absolutely no need to blow that file away. How about for each directory, if there are old files found in the directory then create a ".OLDINSTALL" sub-directory, and move the files into there (instead of removing them). And, of course, avoid descending into those .OLDINSTALL directories... Or, if there is a directory called '/buildbak', then move old files from (say) /usr/bin into /buildbak/usr/bin. Something like that. I just want something less destructive. -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = [EMAIL PROTECTED] Senior Systems Programmer or [EMAIL PROTECTED] Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
