Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2004 20:47:11 +0200 (CEST) From: l0rd@xs4all.nl To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why is data linked to data-dist Message-ID: <13386.82.217.116.43.1097002031.squirrel@webmail.xs4all.nl>
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LB <l0rd@xs4all.nl> wrote: > Greetings, > > I have a general question that I hope someone can help me with. I was > wondering why the powers that be have chosen to link /usr/local/www/data > to /usr/local/www/data-dist instead of just creating > /usr/local/www/data-dist directly. Can anybody help me with the idea behind > this ? This reduces the possibility of people losing their data during an upgrade. If you portupgrade (or use any other system) to upgrade to a newer version of Apache, data-dist will be overwritten with the new documentation that comes with the new version of Apache. data will not be touched. As a result, if you left data as a symlink to data-dist, it still works and shows you the most updated documentation. However, if relink data to a different directory, or replace the symlink with a real directory with your site in it, the upgrade doesn't obliterate your data.
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