"Danny J. Zerkel" wrote:
> Sigh... there should be a file listing incompatible files that is part of
> the source tree. Every file in this list would be deleted as a pre-install
> step. Perl would not have been in this list because it was not
> incompatible. But the old C++ headers clearly were. There have
> no doubt been other instances of incompatible files in the installation
> or examples of files moving. It will happen to any software system
> and should be accounted for in the installation mechanism.
1) It has to be a post-install, in case the install fails,
part way through.
2) It has to be optional: the user has to specifically ask
for the deletion; that way, most of us can ignore it.
3) Feel free to get together with Warner Losh on this, and
submit the code.
> > Personally, I suggest a file "/etc/BUILD" be created to contain
> > the CVS tag and a timestamp indicating the checkout time, created
> > as part of the build process (maybe the tag from the output of a
> > "CVS stat" on the Makefile in /usr/src, processed to deal with
> > sticky tags, and the date stamp on the file itself, otherwise).
>
> Yuck. Let's NOT not use CVS (Cantakerous Version Scrambler) tags.
Feel free to use whatever you want, so long as the value can be
used as an input to a process which will result in the binaries
for the system being recreated identically, except for date stamps.
8-).
-- Terry
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