From owner-cvs-all Fri Jul 21 1:54:14 2000 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EAB5137B79F; Fri, 21 Jul 2000 01:54:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from des@flood.ping.uio.no) Received: (from des@localhost) by flood.ping.uio.no (8.9.3/8.9.3) id KAA58238; Fri, 21 Jul 2000 10:54:04 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from des@flood.ping.uio.no) To: Will Andrews Cc: Marcel Moolenaar , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src Makefile.inc1 References: <200007192248.PAA23393@freefall.freebsd.org> <20000720233008.G28456@argon.gryphonsoft.com> From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: 21 Jul 2000 10:54:03 +0200 In-Reply-To: Will Andrews's message of "Thu, 20 Jul 2000 23:30:08 -0400" Message-ID: Lines: 22 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0802 (Gnus v5.8.2) Emacs/20.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Will Andrews 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