From owner-cvs-all Fri Jul 21 7:26:14 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 52AE237BB03; Fri, 21 Jul 2000 07:26:07 -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 QAA59369; Fri, 21 Jul 2000 16:26:00 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from des@flood.ping.uio.no) To: "Louis A. Mamakos" Cc: Will Andrews , 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> <200007211406.KAA53989@whizzo.transsys.com> From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: 21 Jul 2000 16:25:59 +0200 In-Reply-To: "Louis A. Mamakos"'s message of "Fri, 21 Jul 2000 10:06:45 -0400" Message-ID: Lines: 13 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 "Louis A. Mamakos" 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