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Date:      Sat, 26 Aug 1995 15:04:45 -0700 (PDT)
From:      "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com>
To:        davidg@freefall.FreeBSD.org (David Greenman)
Cc:        CVS-commiters@freefall.FreeBSD.org, cvs-usrbin@freefall.FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/xinstall xinstall.c
Message-ID:  <199508262204.PAA06282@gndrsh.aac.dev.com>
In-Reply-To: <199508261035.DAA08737@freefall.FreeBSD.org> from "David Greenman" at Aug 26, 95 03:35:46 am

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> davidg      95/08/26 03:35:45
> 
>   Branch:      usr.bin/xinstall  RELENG_2_1_0
>   Modified:    usr.bin/xinstall  xinstall.c
>   Log:
>   Brought in change from rev 1.2: don't unlink target on failure of strip.

Both Bruce and I objected strongly to this hack, it is a hack, it should be
backed out of both branches and redone correctly.

It was added to fix the abuse of install -s to install non binary files.
Installs specifically says in its man page it is for installing binary
files.

-- 
Rod Grimes                                      rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com
Accurate Automation Company                 Reliable computers for FreeBSD



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