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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
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Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@flood.ping.uio.no


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