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Re: install -d should bomb out if any args are regular files
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Alfred M\. Szmidt |
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Re: install -d should bomb out if any args are regular files |
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Thu, 20 Oct 2005 12:36:27 +0200 |
> This should bomb out right away,
> $ install -d /var/lib/dpkg/status /tmp/var/lib/dpkg/status
> install: `/var/lib/dpkg/status' exists but is not a directory
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> instead of still creating /tmp/var/lib/dpkg/status.
Why?
No idea, but one could add a option that makes install exit on any
kind of failure; then people can pass INSTALL_FLAGS to configure and
get things to fail. I'll leave it to Dan to implement such a thing.