tjackson <notificati...@github.com> wrote:
> I noticed that tcpdump-4.4.0 installs a versioned binary in addition to
> tcpdump. Was this an oversight in the Makefile or intentional? Since
> 'tcpdump' is duplicated as well it makes it harder to have both
> versions installed, if that was the intention.
> Many distribution packages I checked just remove the versioned binary.
tjackson <notificati...@github.com> wrote:
> Actually, I see now that this isn't specific to version 4.4.0. Is there
> any drawback to removing the versioned binary?
Assuming that you type "make install", you'll get
/usr/bin/install -c tcpdump /usr/local/sbin/tcpdump
/usr/bin/install -c tcpdump /usr/local/sbin/tcpdump.`cat ./VERSION`
which means that "tcpdump" is whatever version you most recently installed,
and "tcpdump.4.4.0" is the specific version. How is this a problem?
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