From owner-freebsd-current Mon Oct 7 18:59:34 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 0D8A737B401 for ; Mon, 7 Oct 2002 18:59:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 907C643EAC for ; Mon, 7 Oct 2002 18:59:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 9A04C81461; Tue, 8 Oct 2002 11:29:28 +0930 (CST) Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2002 11:29:28 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: Garance A Drosihn Cc: Daniel Eischen , "M. Warner Losh" , FreeBSD-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Removing old binaries Message-ID: <20021008015928.GO57557@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <20021008010539.GE57557@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20021008012532.GF57557@wantadilla.lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 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 On Monday, 7 October 2002 at 21:57:28 -0400, Garance A Drosihn wrote: > 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 solve a problem where you got an out-of-date man page.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... That would be an option. But why do you need to put other files in these directories in the first place? Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message