On 2007-10-01 at 14:31 +0100, Earle Martin wrote:
> On 01/10/2007, Phil Pennock wrote:
> > On 2007-10-01 at 11:22 +0100, Earle Martin wrote:
> > > *BSD or the other extended relatives, so maybe this is normal in those
> > > parts, much in the same way that you can marry your sister in some
> > > d
On 01-Oct-2007, at 09:56, David Cantrell wrote:
Apparently, the version that ships with it now still doesn't.
Neither does rsyncx.
Been there, done that, got the "reinstall-from-scratch, rsyncx-hosed-
my-metadata" blues.
Filesystem metadata is hateful. Software that claims to maintain it
On Sat, Sep 29, 2007 at 03:31:03PM +0100, Mark Fowler wrote:
> I know it's bad taste to complain about other's hate, but this is
> because rsyncx is quite old now. The version of rsync that *used* to
> ship with Mac OS X didn't have the ability to sync mac meta-info, so
> rsyncX shipped it'
On 01/10/2007, Phil Pennock wrote:
> On 2007-10-01 at 11:22 +0100, Earle Martin wrote:
> > *BSD or the other extended relatives, so maybe this is normal in those
> > parts, much in the same way that you can marry your sister in some
> > distant tribes.
>
> *BSD uses /usr/local/.
I could have phra
On 01-Oct-2007, at 05:22, Earle Martin wrote:
On this Mac OS X malarkey it's /opt/local, apparently.
That's not OS X, that's Darwinports. My guess is they're copying
Solaris.
On 2007-10-01 at 11:22 +0100, Earle Martin wrote:
> On this Mac OS X malarkey it's /opt/local, apparently. Even though
AFAIK /opt/local/ is a MacOS-ism. /opt/pkgname is something Solaris,
inter alia, uses and I think comes from one of those standards
committees that issues vague edicts that peopl
On 1-Oct-07, at 11:22 AM, Earle Martin wrote:
On 30/09/2007, Peter da Silva wrote:
/usr/local is for standard stuff that doesn't come with the system.
On this Mac OS X malarkey it's /opt/local, apparently. Even though
there is a /usr/local. Which just strikes me as peculiar to say the
least.
On 30/09/2007, Peter da Silva wrote:
> /usr/local is for standard stuff that doesn't come with the system.
>
> If you're installing non-standard stuff, install it in /some/other/
> prefix.
On this Mac OS X malarkey it's /opt/local, apparently. Even though
there is a /usr/local. Which just strikes
