Date: Sun, 14 Feb 1999 15:28:53 -0600 From: Zach Heilig <zach@uffdaonline.net> To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: install -C Message-ID: <19990214152853.A719@znh.org> In-Reply-To: <86u2wpc0iy.fsf@niobe.ewox.org>; from Dag-Erling Smorgrav on Sun, Feb 14, 1999 at 01:05:41AM %2B0100 References: <86u2wpc0iy.fsf@niobe.ewox.org>
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On Sun, Feb 14, 1999 at 01:05:41AM +0100, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > My main argument against always installing certain files with "install > -C" is that makes it very difficult to clean up after a major upgrade, > since you can't rely on "live" files to have a recent timestamp. I've > talked to people on IRC who deleted their Elf interpreter because its > mtime predated their last make world. Shooting yourself in the foot > like that is too high a price for the few seconds saved during make > installworld. Use 'ctime' instead of 'mtime'. This works for everything but perl... -- Zach Heilig <zach@uffdaonline.net> / Zach Heilig <zach@gaffaneys.com> "Americans are sensitive about their money, and since this was the first major change in the greenback in nearly 70 years, a radical redesign might have been too much for consumers to comprehend" -- John Iddings [COINage, Feb. 1999]. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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