On Fri, 2004-02-13 at 08:59, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 03:46:44PM -0600, Ross Boulet wrote: > >One other caveat I have found with using hard links (on an NTFS partition) > >involves upgrades. I changed the symlink for ksh.exe -> pdksh.exe to a hard > >link. When an new version of pdksh was installed, it resulted in two non > >linked files. I had the new version as psksh.exe and the old version as > >ksh.exe. > > Huh. I wonder why that happened. I would expect setup.exe to just > overwrite one file, resulting in the change being reflected in the > linked copy. > > I'm no longer familiar enough with setup's internals to say for sure > if that is what happening but it does appear that the file is being > deleted. That behavior could probably be changed with an appropriate > PTC.
Uninstall + install is the setup process. To fix it is possible... but not trivial. Rob -- GPG key available at: <http://www.robertcollins.net/keys.txt>.
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