Re: naive user

[Navindra Umanee <navindra@cs.mcgill.ca>]

Montreal Mon Mar 15 20:17:09 1999

Remco Blaakmeer <remco-blaakmeer@quicknet.nl> wrote:
> The clean way to do this is to put all your customised programs under
> /usr/local/. In the case of tcpd, you should of course edit
> /etc/inetd.conf so inetd uses the customised tcpd. In general,
> /usr/local/bin should be one of the first directories in the PATH, before
> /usr/bin and /bin.
> 
> Files under /usr (except everything under /usr/local) will be overwritten
> without warning if you upgrade your system.

The BSD ports system absorb any changes you've made in a CVS tree,
recompile the new package and install it automatically.  Hmm, I should
probably rtfm but can apt-get update from source too?  Would be nice
if it could at least fetch the source packages.

-N.