Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2007 20:42:07 -0400 From: "Aryeh M. Friedman" <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com> To: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] prevent install(1) from overwritting symlinks Message-ID: <472A725F.6000201@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. >> > > Why not just set WITHOUT_LPR to skip building the base versions > entirely? > > Because this happens in other cases not covered by WITHOUT_XXX also it does not solve the problem of ports and/or third party install from overwritting.... i.e. this is a general solution to a specific problem (which I think is preferable to a one off solution for each instance of a problem)
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