Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2007 21:57:06 -0400 From: "Aryeh M. Friedman" <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] prevent install(1) from overwritting symlinks Message-ID: <472A83F2.4060301@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20071102043043.GI3109@dan.emsphone.com> References: <472A66EE.6060407@gmail.com> <20071102043043.GI3109@dan.emsphone.com>
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Dan Nelson wrote: > In the last episode (Nov 01), Aryeh M. Friedman said: > >> The below patch is designed to keep install(1) from overwriting symbolic >> links. The motivation is if cups is installed some programs still >> expect lpr to be in /usr/bin thus when I install cups I backlink the >> /usr/local/bin versions of lp* to /usr/bin. When a build/installworld >> is done these links are overwritten and the sym links have to be >> performed again. This patch prevents the overwrite. >> I just tested the patch against installworld/kernel and got: % make installworld|grep symbolic /usr/share/locale/sr_YU.UTF-8/LC_MONETARY is a symbolic link not modified /usr/bin/lp is a symbolic link not modified /usr/bin/lpq is a symbolic link not modified /usr/bin/lpr is a symbolic link not modified /usr/bin/lprm is a symbolic link not modified % make installkernel|grep symbolic [no output] Except for the 4 /bin/lp* enteries (which the patch is meant to preserve) the only issue seems to be /usr/share/locale/sr_YU.UTF-8/LC_MONETARY. Thus conclusion so far is the patch will not harm 8-Current.
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