Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: Paul de Vrieze <paul@××××××××.net>
To: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] other cron than dcron
Date: Sat, 04 May 2002 08:00:47
Message-Id: 200205041500.37083.paul@devrieze.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] other cron than dcron by Kevin Hayes
1 On Saturday 04 May 2002 05:33, Kevin Hayes wrote:
2 > On Fri, 3 May 2002 22:22:24 +0200
3 >
4 > There has to be a better way, but thats what i'm doing right now.
5
6 Instead of making /etc/make.profile a symlink to the profile
7 directory, make it a directory. In this directory make a symlink to
8 every file in the profile. Remove the links of those files you want
9 to change, copy them, and edit them. They will not get overwritten.
10
11 Paul
12
13 ps. a diff once in a while to check for differences that are not
14 nescesarry is adviseable.
15
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17 Paul de Vrieze
18 Junior Researcher
19 Mail: pauldv@××××××.nl
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