From owner-freebsd-current Mon Oct 7 18:57:39 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1256137B406; Mon, 7 Oct 2002 18:57:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.rpi.edu (mail.rpi.edu [128.113.22.40]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ABD4A43EC2; Mon, 7 Oct 2002 18:57:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from drosih@rpi.edu) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.netel.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by mail.rpi.edu (8.12.1/8.12.1) with ESMTP id g981vTZq096068; Mon, 7 Oct 2002 21:57:29 -0400 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: drosih@mail.rpi.edu Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <20021008012532.GF57557@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <20021008010539.GE57557@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20021008012532.GF57557@wantadilla.lemis.com> Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2002 21:57:28 -0400 To: "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" , Daniel Eischen From: Garance A Drosihn Subject: Re: Removing old binaries Cc: "M. Warner Losh" , FreeBSD-current@FreeBSD.ORG Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.3 (www dot roaringpenguin dot com slash mimedefang) Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 10:55 AM +0930 10/8/02, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: >On Monday, 7 October 2002 at 21:18:10 -0400, Daniel Eischen wrote: > > On Tue, 8 Oct 2002, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > >> On Monday, 7 October 2002 at 20:07:37 -0400, Daniel Eischen wrote: > >>> I don't think doing this by default is a good idea. Sometimes I >>>> like to preseve previous versions of things, knowing that they > >>> work. >>> >>> Nothing's stopping you saving them first.. >> >> In the same directory. > >Nothing's stopping you doing whatever you want, ultimately. I'm >looking for the solution to the 99% case. If we are talking about something which will be run, by default, for every person every time they do a 'make installworld', then I think that solution must be a more user-friendly. You're trying to solve a problem where you got an out-of-date man page. That is hardly a crisis. I'm trying to avoid the problem where 'installworld' blows away some important file on a user -- when it had absolutely no need to blow that file away. How about for each directory, if there are old files found in the directory then create a ".OLDINSTALL" sub-directory, and move the files into there (instead of removing them). And, of course, avoid descending into those .OLDINSTALL directories... Or, if there is a directory called '/buildbak', then move old files from (say) /usr/bin into /buildbak/usr/bin. Something like that. I just want something less destructive. -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message