George Michaelson wrote:
> Q. These symbolic links are a pain. Why don't you just edit
> "src/sys/conf/files" appropriately?
>
> A. The license terms for soft-updates do not permit that. See the
> FreeBSD mailing list archives (the FreeBSD-current list, probably) for
> more details.
>
> Would it be legal under the licence to include a rule in some Makefile
> which did the damn things, but was not automatically invoked anywhere?
Please don't start a discussion about this without first studying the
mailing list archives. All of this stuff has been discussed before,
and needn't be rehashed again.
> Would it be legal to include in standard CVSUP configs rules which prevent
> loss of the links if installed?
>
> o I may be wrong, but I think I loose them when I refresh if some rules
> are present.
CVSup won't touch your symbolic links. It won't touch any file that
it doesn't know anything about.
John
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