Date: 21 Jul 2000 16:25:59 +0200 From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no> To: "Louis A. Mamakos" <louie@TransSys.COM> Cc: Will Andrews <andrews@technologist.com>, Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@FreeBSD.ORG>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src Makefile.inc1 Message-ID: <xzp1z0na7bc.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> In-Reply-To: "Louis A. Mamakos"'s message of "Fri, 21 Jul 2000 10:06:45 -0400" References: <200007192248.PAA23393@freefall.freebsd.org> <xzpya2xffvr.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <20000720233008.G28456@argon.gryphonsoft.com> <xzplmyvamok.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <200007211406.KAA53989@whizzo.transsys.com>
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"Louis A. Mamakos" <louie@TransSys.COM> writes: > I seem to have a dim memory of install(1) on some system I used to use > having a -u option to unlink the destination before installing to > avoid the overwriting problem. Perhaps renaming and unlinking on > success would be better. FreeBSD's install(1) always does, but you're missing the point. I want an option that makes install(1) keep a backup of the previous version of the file it replaces. 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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