Messages in this thread Patch in this message |  | | Date | Thu, 17 May 2001 22:01:33 +1000 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | [patch] preserve symlinked .configs |
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When one has several machines it is nice to keep each machine's .config under revision control. Then, on each machine,
ln [-s] .config-$(hostname -s) .config
Problem is, `make menuconfig/oldconfig/config' goes and removes your link, causing much irritation.
--- linux-2.4.4-ac9/scripts/Configure Sun Dec 31 13:16:13 2000 +++ ac/scripts/Configure Sun May 6 09:40:25 2001 @@ -566,9 +566,10 @@ rm -f .config.old if [ -f .config ]; then - mv .config .config.old + cp .config .config.old fi -mv .tmpconfig .config +cp .tmpconfig .config +rm .tmpconfig mv .tmpconfig.h include/linux/autoconf.h echo --- linux-2.4.4-ac9/scripts/Menuconfig Tue May 15 14:11:09 2001 +++ ac/scripts/Menuconfig Wed May 9 11:33:30 2001 @@ -1290,12 +1290,12 @@ if [ -f "$DEF_CONFIG" ] then - rm -f ${DEF_CONFIG}.old - mv $DEF_CONFIG ${DEF_CONFIG}.old + cp $DEF_CONFIG ${DEF_CONFIG}.old fi - mv $CONFIG $DEF_CONFIG - + cp $CONFIG $DEF_CONFIG + rm $CONFIG + return 0 else return 1
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