Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2007 23:30:44 -0500 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: "Aryeh M. Friedman" <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] prevent install(1) from overwritting symlinks Message-ID: <20071102043043.GI3109@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <472A66EE.6060407@gmail.com> References: <472A66EE.6060407@gmail.com>
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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? -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com
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