Just FYI: I think fileutils are definitly worth it, and work
wonderful for me. That is, the Fink ones which disable the rm
command for exatly this reason.
BTW, to clarify even more: it's not really GNU fileutils being a
buggy; they just stumble over a bug in OS X.
Cheers,
Max
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On Fri, 29 Mar 2002, James J. Sorenson wrote:
> I'm starting to wonder if fileutils is worth it.
In my opinion, no. The system already includes most of that stuff...
> I just wanted the colored ls and the expanded grep command,
You're on your own for the former (I suggest installing your own
Moving rm to rm2 in the /usr/local/bin directory seems to have done the
trick. Packages install fine. I'm starting to wonder if fileutils is
worth it. I just wanted the colored ls and the expanded grep command,
but I'm wondering what other errors this addition may have caused.
As to my earl
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On Thursday, March 28, 2002, at 09:26 PM, James J. Sorenson wrote:
> I have been getting occasional errors when installing certain packages
> that use "rm -rf." For instance, the netpbm package from the current
> unstable distribution will always
I have been getting occasional errors when installing certain packages
that use "rm -rf." For instance, the netpbm package from the current
unstable distribution will always error out when it tries:
rm -rf /sw/src/root-netpbm-9.24-3/sw/share/man/man1
I get "Directory not empty" errors. This m
