From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Jun 30 19:12:30 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from wall.polstra.com (rtrwan160.accessone.com [206.213.115.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E58F7151F9; Wed, 30 Jun 1999 19:12:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jdp@polstra.com) Received: from vashon.polstra.com (vashon.polstra.com [206.213.73.13]) by wall.polstra.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id TAA07135; Wed, 30 Jun 1999 19:12:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jdp@polstra.com) Received: (from jdp@localhost) by vashon.polstra.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) id TAA08842; Wed, 30 Jun 1999 19:12:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jdp@polstra.com) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <2269.930794729@dstc.edu.au> Date: Wed, 30 Jun 1999 19:12:24 -0700 (PDT) Organization: Polstra & Co., Inc. From: John Polstra To: George Michaelson Subject: Re: HEADS UP: Soft-updates sources are moving soon Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG George Michaelson wrote: > Q. These symbolic links are a pain. Why don't you just edit > "src/sys/conf/files" appropriately? > > A. The license terms for soft-updates do not permit that. See the > FreeBSD mailing list archives (the FreeBSD-current list, probably) for > more details. > > Would it be legal under the licence to include a rule in some Makefile > which did the damn things, but was not automatically invoked anywhere? Please don't start a discussion about this without first studying the mailing list archives. All of this stuff has been discussed before, and needn't be rehashed again. > Would it be legal to include in standard CVSUP configs rules which prevent > loss of the links if installed? > > o I may be wrong, but I think I loose them when I refresh if some rules > are present. CVSup won't touch your symbolic links. It won't touch any file that it doesn't know anything about. John --- John Polstra jdp@polstra.com John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA "No matter how cynical I get, I just can't keep up." -- Nora Ephron To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message