Re: Tip: programs that over write links

2021-02-09 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Mon, 2021-02-08 at 16:19 -0800, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > On 2/8/21 4:16 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: > > On 09/02/2021 08:08, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > > > I was reporting a bug over there.  I was only > > > giving a tip over here. > > > > > > "Two programs that will over write your links

Re: Tip: programs that over write links

2021-02-08 Thread Ed Greshko
On 09/02/2021 08:24, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: On 2/8/21 4:01 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: 2) create a link in another directory to the original document Seems they understood me over there without need to state "symbolic" before the link.  H Ah, huh.  You take one line and remove all cont

Re: Tip: programs that over write links

2021-02-08 Thread ToddAndMargo via users
On 2/8/21 4:01 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: 2) create a link in another directory to the original document Seems they understood me over there without need to state "symbolic" before the link. H ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To

Re: Tip: programs that over write links

2021-02-08 Thread ToddAndMargo via users
On 2/8/21 4:16 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 09/02/2021 08:08, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: I was reporting a bug over there.  I was only giving a tip over here. "Two programs that will over write your links with the actual file" is as clear as it gets! Well, then why did poc write: "By links do

Re: Tip: programs that over write links

2021-02-08 Thread Ed Greshko
On 09/02/2021 08:08, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: I was reporting a bug over there.  I was only giving a tip over here. "Two programs that will over write your links with the actual file" is as clear as it gets! Well, then why did poc write: "By links do you mean URLs, hard links, symlinks,

Re: Tip: programs that over write links

2021-02-08 Thread ToddAndMargo via users
On 2/8/21 4:01 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 09/02/2021 07:57, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: On 2/8/21 3:41 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 09/02/2021 06:39, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: You seriously think I was asking for help?  I was posting a tip to help others. You can only help others if you dem

Re: Tip: programs that over write links

2021-02-08 Thread Ed Greshko
On 09/02/2021 07:57, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: On 2/8/21 3:41 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 09/02/2021 06:39, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: You seriously think I was asking for help?  I was posting a tip to help others. You can only help others if you demonstrate clearly the issue you are try

Re: Tip: programs that over write links

2021-02-08 Thread ToddAndMargo via users
On 2/8/21 3:41 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 09/02/2021 06:39, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: You seriously think I was asking for help?  I was posting a tip to help others. You can only help others if you demonstrate clearly the issue you are trying to convey. That, you didn't do. I do not kn

Re: Tip: programs that over write links

2021-02-08 Thread Ed Greshko
On 09/02/2021 06:39, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: You seriously think I was asking for help?  I was posting a tip to help others. You can only help others if you demonstrate clearly the issue you are trying to convey. That, you didn't do. And, still, this has nothing to do with *Fedora* and

Re: Tip: programs that over write links

2021-02-08 Thread ToddAndMargo via users
On 2/8/21 3:10 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: I still have no idea what was wrong and what they fixed. If you open a wine program and read in a data file that was a symbolic link, then saved your work back, it would over write the link with the actual file and leave the original file alone. N

Re: Tip: programs that over write links

2021-02-08 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Mon, 2021-02-08 at 10:30 -0800, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > On 2/8/21 2:38 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > On Mon, 2021-02-08 at 00:27 -0800, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > > > Hi All, > > > > > > Two programs that will over write your links with > > > the actual file: > > > > > > soft

Re: Tip: programs that over write links

2021-02-08 Thread ToddAndMargo via users
On 2/8/21 1:57 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 09/02/2021 04:46, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: 1) who ONLY uses packages from the Fedora repo? Some, many. Lets see: $ ls /etc/yum.repos.d | grep -v fedora brave-browser-rpm-release.s3.brave.com_x86_64_.repo home:hawkeye116477:waterfox.repo metasplo

Re: Tip: programs that over write links

2021-02-08 Thread ToddAndMargo via users
On 2/8/21 1:34 PM, Erik P. Olsen wrote: On 2021-02-08 at 12:46:48 ToddAndMargo via users wrote: 1) who ONLY uses packages from the Fedora repo? 2) man ln -s, --symbolic make symbolic links instead of hard links $ touch xxx $ ln -s xxx yyy $ ls -al yyy lrwxr

Re: Tip: programs that over write links

2021-02-08 Thread Ed Greshko
On 09/02/2021 04:46, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: 1) who ONLY uses packages from the Fedora repo? Some, many. But, if I have issues with non-fedora packages I take it to the community that supports those packages. And, if someone asks about a non-fedora package I may try to find the answer

Re: Tip: programs that over write links

2021-02-08 Thread Erik P. Olsen
On 2021-02-08 at 12:46:48 ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > 1) who ONLY uses packages from the Fedora repo? > > 2) man ln > -s, --symbolic > make symbolic links instead of hard links > > $ touch xxx > $ ln -s xxx yyy > $ ls -al yyy > lrwxrwxrwx. 1 todd users 3 Feb 8

Re: Tip: programs that over write links

2021-02-08 Thread ToddAndMargo via users
On 2/8/21 11:01 AM, Ed Greshko wrote: On 09/02/2021 02:30, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: On 2/8/21 2:38 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Mon, 2021-02-08 at 00:27 -0800, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: Hi All, Two programs that will over write your links with the actual file: softmaker-freeoff

Re: Tip: programs that over write links

2021-02-08 Thread Ed Greshko
On 09/02/2021 02:30, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: On 2/8/21 2:38 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Mon, 2021-02-08 at 00:27 -0800, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: Hi All, Two programs that will over write your links with the actual file: softmaker-freeoffice-2018-2018-982.x86_64 Anything runni

Re: Tip: programs that over write links

2021-02-08 Thread ToddAndMargo via users
On 2/8/21 2:38 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Mon, 2021-02-08 at 00:27 -0800, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: Hi All, Two programs that will over write your links with the actual file: softmaker-freeoffice-2018-2018-982.x86_64 Anything running under wine By links do you mean URLs, hard link

Re: Tip: programs that over write links

2021-02-08 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Mon, 2021-02-08 at 00:27 -0800, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > Hi All, > > Two programs that will over write your links with > the actual file: > > softmaker-freeoffice-2018-2018-982.x86_64 > Anything running under wine By links do you mean URLs, hard links, symlinks, something else? By "ove

Tip: programs that over write links

2021-02-08 Thread ToddAndMargo via users
Hi All, Two programs that will over write your links with the actual file: softmaker-freeoffice-2018-2018-982.x86_64 Anything running under wine -T ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lis