On Tue, 1 Mar 2005, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote:
> If they want a different directory, it still doesn't hurt to force ~/.cpan
> to binmode (except in so far as it uses up the AIUI limited number of
> mounts). I'd advocate putting it in a postinstall script.
Yes, it does sometimes. There used a problem doing "rm" when a mount
directory doesn't exist -- the root directory was erased. I don't have a
spare system available to experiment with it now.
I had this problem when I did "rm -rf ~/something", where "~/something"
was mounted explicitly, but didn't exist. At a guess, if the mount point
doesn't exist, the directory resolves to "/", and that's what is being
erased.
> > Anyway: PTA,
> > Gerrit
Adverse Aftereffect of an Abundance of Acronyms (AAAA). :-)
> /me looks around, certain that that *can't* have been addressed to me :)
I thought the "official" acronym for *that* was "PITA"? Perhaps it's time
to add it to the OLOCA? Oh, well, perhaps when I see it actually *used*
rather than hinted upon...
Igor
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