Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2002 11:29:28 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> Cc: Daniel Eischen <eischen@pcnet1.pcnet.com>, "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com>, FreeBSD-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Removing old binaries Message-ID: <20021008015928.GO57557@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <p05111724b9c7e8a1bc14@[128.113.24.47]> References: <20021008010539.GE57557@wantadilla.lemis.com> <Pine.GSO.4.10.10210072112020.8423-100000@pcnet1.pcnet.com> <20021008012532.GF57557@wantadilla.lemis.com> <p05111724b9c7e8a1bc14@[128.113.24.47]>
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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 solve a problem where you got an out-of-date man page.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
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