Newsgroups: news.software.b
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: C News relaynews problem with NEWSCTL
Message-ID: <1991May15.152535.9711@zoo.toronto.edu>
Date: Wed, 15 May 1991 15:25:35 GMT
References: <1991May11.220712.9660@zoo.toronto.edu> <1991May15.032629.20911@dmp.csiro.au>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology

In article <1991May15.032629.20911@dmp.csiro.au> sfy@dmp.csiro.au (Shane Youl) writes:
>> Copy the new config file from the sources/conf directory to NEWSCTL/bin.
>> The build procedure is too bashful about this...
>
>Why can't build make a list of files like this that it hasn't installed? It's
>a real pain to have to install them manually, especially some of the less
>obvious ones. It would also be nice to have a build option which would rename
>files in newsbin to name.OLD, if they already exist...

The list is not a bad idea; the renaming may be awkward to arrange but I'll
think about it.  I'll consider both the next time I get around to revising
the build stuff.

In any case, one thing that has been done and will be in the next patch
(whenever that is) is that the copy of config is no longer conditional.
It's logically part of the programs, not a user-modifiable control file.
-- 
And the bean-counter replied,           | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
"beans are more important".             |  henry@zoo.toronto.edu  utzoo!henry