On Monday, 7 October 2002 at 21:57:28 -0400, Garance A Drosihn wrote: > 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 solve a problem where you got an out-of-date man page.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...
That would be an option. But why do you need to put other files in these directories in the first place? 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
