Subject: Re: install-target for /sys/arch/*/conf/Makefile.* ?
To: Andrew Brown <atatat@atatdot.net>
From: Frederick Bruckman <fb@enteract.com>
List: tech-kern
Date: 04/29/2000 09:46:46
On Tue, 25 Apr 2000, Andrew Brown wrote:

> >> 	rm -f /onetbsd
> >> 	ln /netbsd /onetbsd
> >> 	cp netbsd /nnetbsd
> >> 	mv /nnetbsd /netbsd
> >
> >     Functionally identical (just because :)
> >	ln -f /netbsd /onetbsd
> >	cp netbsd /nnetbsd
> >	mv /nnetbsd /netbsd
> 
> i was gonna parry with
> 
> 	install -crb netbsd /netbsd

I prefer to use "mv netbsd /", or "cp -p netbsd /". That way, the
ctime closely matches the embedded id, so I have an easier time
keeping them straight if I've built two or three one after another.