Date: Wed, 30 Jun 1999 19:12:24 -0700 (PDT) From: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> To: George Michaelson <ggm@dstc.edu.au> Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HEADS UP: Soft-updates sources are moving soon Message-ID: <XFMail.990630191224.jdp@polstra.com> In-Reply-To: <2269.930794729@dstc.edu.au>
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George Michaelson wrote: > Q. These symbolic links are a pain. Why don't you just edit > "src/sys/conf/files" appropriately? > > A. The license terms for soft-updates do not permit that. See the > FreeBSD mailing list archives (the FreeBSD-current list, probably) for > more details. > > Would it be legal under the licence to include a rule in some Makefile > which did the damn things, but was not automatically invoked anywhere? Please don't start a discussion about this without first studying the mailing list archives. All of this stuff has been discussed before, and needn't be rehashed again. > Would it be legal to include in standard CVSUP configs rules which prevent > loss of the links if installed? > > o I may be wrong, but I think I loose them when I refresh if some rules > are present. CVSup won't touch your symbolic links. It won't touch any file that it doesn't know anything about. John --- John Polstra jdp@polstra.com John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA "No matter how cynical I get, I just can't keep up." -- Nora Ephron To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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