From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Nov 2 08:53:32 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF9EE16A417 for ; Fri, 2 Nov 2007 08:53:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E9F213C4B5 for ; Fri, 2 Nov 2007 08:53:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.14.1/8.14.1) id lA24UitR056722; Thu, 1 Nov 2007 23:30:44 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2007 23:30:44 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: "Aryeh M. Friedman" Message-ID: <20071102043043.GI3109@dan.emsphone.com> References: <472A66EE.6060407@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <472A66EE.6060407@gmail.com> X-OS: FreeBSD 7.0-BETA1 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] prevent install(1) from overwritting symlinks X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 02 Nov 2007 08:53:32 -0000 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