Philip J. Koenig wrote:
> On 18 Nov 2001, at 10:20, Kurt Wall boldly uttered: 

[...]

> > Hmm. install's -d option will force the creation of the desired
> > directory. I'm guessing the Makefile has something hardcoded that's
> > causing this to break.
> 
> I'm worried it will delete or overwrite the existing cron.d 
> directory.  Am I being silly?

No, it won't create a directory that already exists. Existing files in
that directory may get overwritten, but that would be the fault of the
packager, not the install command.

> This is yet another one of those things where it looks like you found 
> an easy way out, and it ends up taking you 3 times longer than doing 
> it the hard way.

[chuckle]

Kurt
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A:      Open other end.
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