Re: [PATCH] prevent install(1) from overwritting symlinks

From: Dan Nelson <dnelson_at_allantgroup.com>
Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2007 23:30:44 -0500
In the last episode (Nov 01), Aryeh M. Friedman said:
> The below patch is designed to keep install(1) from overwriting symbolic
> links.   The motivation is if cups is installed some programs still
> expect lpr to be in /usr/bin thus when I install cups I backlink the
> /usr/local/bin versions of lp* to /usr/bin.   When a build/installworld
> is done these links are overwritten and the sym links have to be
> performed again.   This patch prevents the overwrite.

Why not just set WITHOUT_LPR to skip building the base versions
entirely?
 
-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson_at_allantgroup.com
Received on Fri Nov 02 2007 - 07:53:32 UTC

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