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Re: using "install_root"
- To: glibc-linux@ricardo.ecn.wfu.edu
- Subject: Re: using "install_root"
- From: Paul Civati <paul@xciv.org>
- Date: Wed, 26 May 1999 19:49:34 +0100
- Cc: paul@xciv.org
- Reply-To: glibc-linux@ricardo.ecn.wfu.edu
In xciv.lists.linux.glibc, you wrote:
> I'm in the habit of using the alternative install_root trick
> when updating glibc, for safety's sake. One problem: when
> installing the new files using tar, existing symlinks are not
> overwritten and I have to fix these by hand.
Operation modifiers:
-U, --unlink-first remove each file prior to extracting over it
> Is there a smarter
> way of doing this? In the tar manpage I can't find any
> equivalent of cp's "-f" option -- can cpio do that?
I think the above will do the job?
-Paul-