Re: [Cooker] /etc/alternatives: HOW-TO ???

2000-10-14 Thread Alexander Skwar 

On Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 07:51:36PM -0400, jdrash wrote:
   How do I setup things up so that symlinks in /etc/alternatives are

/usr/bin/gcc is a symlink to /etc/alternatives/gcc
/etc/alternatives/gcc is a symlink to the gcc that's to be used.  In this
case it is /usr/bin/gcc-2.96

ln -sfv /etc/alternatives/gcc /usr/bin/gcc
ln -sfv /usr/bin/gcc-2.96 /etc/alternatives/gcc

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Re: [Cooker] /etc/alternatives: HOW-TO ???

2000-10-14 Thread Chmouel Boudjnah 

jdrash [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

   How do I setup things up so that symlinks in /etc/alternatives
   are  used?

man updates-alternatives, i'll put some docs (coming from Debian) in
the rpm rpm.

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Re: [Cooker] /etc/alternatives: HOW-TO ???

2000-10-14 Thread Alexander Skwar 

On Sat, Oct 14, 2000 at 08:41:35PM +0200, Chmouel Boudjnah wrote:
 man updates-alternatives, i'll put some docs (coming from Debian) in
 the rpm rpm.

Oh, nice!

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[Cooker] /etc/alternatives: HOW-TO ???

2000-10-13 Thread jdrash 

OK,
How do I setup things up so that symlinks in /etc/alternatives are
used?

BTW, I am really not a newbie. grin

jim drash
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