On Thursday, November 7, 2002, at 09:43 AM, David Wheeler wrote:
There's the rub -- I don't think you *can* "prevent future OS updates from writing over our custom versions." That's why I choose to simply disable Apple's Apache and create a startup bundle for my own.Since the updates necessarily run as root, the only way for you to protect customizations from them is to hide them where Apple will not be updating! I have had to change several files after upgrades ... files that handle swapfile on a non-boot partition, for example ... a nuisance. An "expert mode" in the installer/upgrader would be nice, letting admins check/uncheck and perhaps preview replacements in /etc and perhaps elsewhere.
Your Apache/perl instructions are great, and your sharing your experience here and in publication is greatly appreciated.
Best regards,
--Chris
