.OLD suffix

Julien ÉLIE julien at trigofacile.com
Fri May 23 22:04:11 UTC 2008


Hi Ivan,

> JFTR: the text above should have been present at the top of the
> original message.

It is a long-standing bug in this mailing-list.  I have forwarded
it to ISC.


>> However, I believe you would have wanted something like "make update
>> nobackup" or "make --nobackup update".  However, make does not
>> support such constructions.
>
> It seems to be good enough in its present state.

I have just updated the INSTALL file to tell it (otherwise, we will
forget the possibility not to backup files).


--- doc/pod/install.pod (révision 7829)
+++ doc/pod/install.pod (copie de travail)
@@ -18,8 +18,10 @@

 after building INN and then comparing the new sample configuration files
 with your current ones to see if anything has changed.  If you take this
-route, the old binaries, scripts, and man pages will be saved with an
-extension of C<.OLD> so that you can easily back out.  Be sure to
+route, the old binaries and scripts will be saved with an extension of
+C<.OLD> so that you can easily back out.  Note that if you do not want
+to have such backup copies, you can deactivate this behaviour with
+C<make BACKUP_OPTION='' update> instead of a mere C<make update>.  Be sure to
 configure INN with the same options that you used previously if you take
 this approach (in particular, INN compiled with B<--enable-largefiles>
 can't read the data structures written by INN compiled without that flag,
@@ -376,7 +378,7 @@
 libraries corresponding to the version of INN that you're installing.

 Also, when updating an existing version of INN, INN tries to save backup
-copies of all files so that you can revert to the previous installed
+copies of all files but man pages so that you can revert to the previous installed
 version.  Unfortunately, when using shared libraries, this confuses
 B<ldconfig> on some systems (such as Linux) and the symbolic links for the
 libraries may point to the C<.OLD> versions.  If this happens, you can either


-- 
Julien ÉLIE

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