Date: Thu, 6 Apr 1995 04:04:19 +1000 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: nate@trout.sri.MT.net, terry@cs.weber.edu Cc: freebsd-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com, kargl@troutmask.apl.washington.edu Subject: Re: new install(1) utility Message-ID: <199504051804.EAA27217@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>> > Hmmm... this could produce a decent timesavings. >> >> Yes, this would in effect do the same thing as the -t option you have >> now and save a tremendous amount of re-linking of files since the >> timestamps would not change. >Bah humbug. >[settled points deleted] >And jamming make-like dependency capability into install is a >cockamamy way to fix it. Putting install-like capabilities into install would be worse. It would need builtins for: - checking that the target uid, gid and mode are correct - checking that the target links are correct. These checks could be done by shell commands but that would probably take longer than always installing. Bruce
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