Re: naive user
On Mon, 15 Mar 1999, Navindra Umanee wrote:
> 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.
That is a planned feature for apt, but you correctly pinpoint it as a
current weakness in our system.
Jules
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