When one has several machines it is nice to keep each
machine's .config under revision control.  Then, on
each machine,

        ln [-s] .config-$(hostname -s) .config

Problem is, `make menuconfig/oldconfig/config' goes and
removes your link, causing much irritation.

--- linux-2.4.4-ac9/scripts/Configure   Sun Dec 31 13:16:13 2000
+++ ac/scripts/Configure        Sun May  6 09:40:25 2001
@@ -566,9 +566,10 @@
 
 rm -f .config.old
 if [ -f .config ]; then
-       mv .config .config.old
+       cp .config .config.old
 fi
-mv .tmpconfig .config
+cp .tmpconfig .config
+rm .tmpconfig
 mv .tmpconfig.h include/linux/autoconf.h
 
 echo
--- linux-2.4.4-ac9/scripts/Menuconfig  Tue May 15 14:11:09 2001
+++ ac/scripts/Menuconfig       Wed May  9 11:33:30 2001
@@ -1290,12 +1290,12 @@
 
                if [ -f "$DEF_CONFIG" ]
                then
-                       rm -f ${DEF_CONFIG}.old
-                       mv $DEF_CONFIG ${DEF_CONFIG}.old
+                       cp $DEF_CONFIG ${DEF_CONFIG}.old
                fi
 
-               mv $CONFIG $DEF_CONFIG
-                       
+               cp $CONFIG $DEF_CONFIG
+               rm $CONFIG
+       
                return 0
        else
                return 1


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