From owner-cvs-all Sat Jul 22 22:35: 9 2000 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 08B8A37B8F7; Sat, 22 Jul 2000 22:35:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from green@FreeBSD.org) Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2000 01:35:02 -0400 (EDT) From: Brian Fundakowski Feldman X-Sender: green@green.dyndns.org To: David O'Brien Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src Makefile.inc1 In-Reply-To: <20000722170630.A47088@dragon.nuxi.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 22 Jul 2000, David O'Brien wrote: > On Thu, Jul 20, 2000 at 03:53:53AM -0400, Brian Fundakowski Feldman wrote: > > > This is arguably a bug in install(1), which should have an option to > > > save a backup copy. > > > > I'd rather not make install(1) even more of a superset of the original > > than it is. > > Why? DES's request sounds quite reasonable and would be useful in parts > of our installation process. I didn't say it's not useful, I am merely stating that it's creeping featurism, and I'd like not to do that. Unless it would allow me to do it with less work, I don't see the point; the "less work" I don't see because to me I could type target: ${INSTALL} -C -p ${DESTDIR}${PROG} ${DESTDIR}${PROG}.old as quickly as target-replacing-install: ${INSTALL} -C -B ${DESTDIR}${PROG}.old ${PROG} ${DESTDIR}${PROG} I don't see how you could do it just by replacing INSTALLFLAGS unless you were simply installing just one single file. That's my reasoning for believing it's not useful. If you can show me a way it really will be useful, I won't deny it if it works. > -- > -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org) -- Brian Fundakowski Feldman \ FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! / green@FreeBSD.org `------------------------------' To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message