Date: 6 Oct 1999 12:39:15 -0000 From: nbm@rucus.ru.ac.za To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: docs/14163: fix handbook symlink install problem with old version installed Message-ID: <19991006123915.33112.qmail@mithrandr.moria.org>
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>Number: 14163 >Category: docs >Synopsis: fix handbook symlink install problem with old version installed >Confidential: no >Severity: non-critical >Priority: low >Responsible: freebsd-doc >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: change-request >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Wed Oct 6 06:30:02 PDT 1999 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: Neil Blakey-Milner >Release: FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT i386 >Organization: Rhodes University Computer Users' Society >Environment: FreeBSD mithrandr.moria.org 4.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT #2: Wed Sep 29 17:30:21 SAST 1999 root@mithrandr.moria.org:/usr/src/sys/compile/MITHRANDR i386 >Description: The 'symlinks' target uses rm -f to remove any already existing symlinks; in the case of /usr/share/doc/handbook this is a directory, not a symlink. It should probably be rm -rf instead. >How-To-Repeat: mkdir /usr/share/doc/handbook cd /usr/doc/en_US.ISO_8859-1/books && make install >Fix: cvs diff: Diffing . Index: doc.subdir.mk =================================================================== RCS file: /home/nbm/ncvs/doc/share/mk/doc.subdir.mk,v retrieving revision 1.2 diff -u -r1.2 doc.subdir.mk --- doc.subdir.mk 1999/09/06 06:53:39 1.2 +++ doc.subdir.mk 1999/10/06 12:34:20 @@ -106,7 +106,7 @@ ${ECHO} "$${d}/$${l} doesn't exist, not linking"; \ else \ ${ECHO} $${d}/$${t} -\> $${d}/$${l}; \ - (cd $${d} && rm -f $${t}); \ + (cd $${d} && rm -rf $${t}); \ (cd $${d} && ln -s $${l} $${t}); \ fi; \ done >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted: To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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