From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Aug 5 09:09:24 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA08040 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Wed, 5 Aug 1998 09:09:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from pop.uniserve.com (pop.uniserve.com [204.244.156.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id JAA07996 for ; Wed, 5 Aug 1998 09:09:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tom@uniserve.com) Received: from shell.uniserve.ca [204.244.186.218] by pop.uniserve.com with smtp (Exim 1.82 #4) id 0z467Z-0000CR-00; Wed, 5 Aug 1998 09:09:01 -0700 Date: Wed, 5 Aug 1998 09:09:00 -0700 (PDT) From: Tom X-Sender: tom@shell.uniserve.ca To: Matt Behrens cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Preserving a program across make world In-Reply-To: <35C85F9D.94DEFB3D@iserv.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 5 Aug 1998, Matt Behrens wrote: > Sorry if this has been asked before, but I searched for quite some time > and didn't find anything. > > How can we preserve a program across make worlds in -stable? For > example, I'm using a newer ppp and don't want it overwritten. I had > also at one point wanted to use GNU ls instead of BSD for some > compatibility with a ill-behaved FTP client. > > Is there a way? Yes, put such things in /usr/local/ After all, these are local changes. > -- > __ > /-/ Matt Behrens > ( ( Iserv Network Operations Center > ) ) http://www.iserv.net/ > /_/ People with the right connection choose Iserv! Tom To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message