Date: 21 Jul 2000 10:54:03 +0200 From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no> To: Will Andrews <andrews@technologist.com> Cc: Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@FreeBSD.ORG>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src Makefile.inc1 Message-ID: <xzplmyvamok.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> In-Reply-To: Will Andrews's message of "Thu, 20 Jul 2000 23:30:08 -0400" References: <200007192248.PAA23393@freefall.freebsd.org> <xzpya2xffvr.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <20000720233008.G28456@argon.gryphonsoft.com>
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Will Andrews <andrews@technologist.com> writes: > On Thu, Jul 20, 2000 at 08:57:28AM +0200, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > > This is arguably a bug in install(1), which should have an option to > > save a backup copy. > > Umm, what about this: > > -c Copy the file. This flag turns off the default behavior of > install where it deletes the original file after > creating the target. > > Or perhaps I'm missing the point. :-( You are. Normally, install(1) moves the original file to its destination. The -c option makes it leave the original in place, but it still overwrites the destination. I want an option to make install(1) make a backup of the destination file before overwriting it. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@flood.ping.uio.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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