suggestion: saving old binaries during installation

[Kevin Taylor]

"Smith, Donald" wrote:
> 
> And that's exactly what a make install (IN THE SOURCE CODE DIR) will do.
> 
> Donald.Smith at qwest.com IP Engineering Security
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Kevin Taylor [mailto:ktaylor at eosdata.gsfc.nasa.gov]
> > Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2001 12:37 PM
> > To: openssh-unix-dev at mindrot.org
> > Subject: suggestion: saving old binaries during installation
> >
> >
> >
> > Just as a suggestion, I liked the way the ssh.com's ssh would move the
> > old binaries to filename.old then install the new ones....so that way
> > you have an old copy to revert back to if needed (without copying them
> > all by hand).
> >


but it doesn't.


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