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From: timk@wynnds.xenitec.on.ca (Tim Kuehn)
Subject: Re: C News relaynews problem with NEWSCTL
Organization: TDK Consulting Services
Date: Wed, 15 May 1991 20:34:47 GMT
Message-ID: <1991May15.203447.1019@wynnds.xenitec.on.ca>
References: <1991May11.220712.9660@zoo.toronto.edu> <1991May15.032629.20911@dmp.csiro.au> <1991May15.152535.9711@zoo.toronto.edu>

In article <1991May15.152535.9711@zoo.toronto.edu> henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes:
>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.

Alternatively, build could make a script with the list of files that 
need to be copied somewhere, and then let the user mod the script 
according to where they go. (Maybe create a new script file "doit.manual" 
or something.) Build could write something that looks like this
to doit.manual:

cp man1 man1
cp config config
cp <other file> <other file>

The installer then hand modifies doit.manual according to where 
these things all go, so the final form would be: 

cp man1 /usr/man/8/man1
cp config /usr/local/lib/news/bin/config

... etc ...

All the user has to do is add the directory paths where the files go.

Of course, you'd need a prompt in build to ask if a doit.manual file was
required or not to keep from accidentally overwriting an existing entry.

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