suggestion: saving old binaries during installation

[Smith, Donald]

kevin your right. The Makefile for ssh-1.2.31 does copy current FILENAME to
FILENAME.old then cp binaries around but the
Openssh Makefile doesn't.
The make install part of the Openssh's Makefile just calls install-sh it
would be fairly trivial to fix the install-sh to make backup copies of the
binaries. I have been spending too much time between the Openssh code and
ssh.com's code. 
Sorry for the confusion.

Donald.Smith at qwest.com IP Engineering Security
303-226-9939/0688 Office/Fax
720-320-1537 cell

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kevin Taylor [mailto:ktaylor at eosdata.gsfc.nasa.gov]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2001 6:41 AM
> To: Smith, Donald
> Cc: 'Kevin Taylor'; openssh-unix-dev at mindrot.org
> Subject: Re: suggestion: saving old binaries during installation
> 
> 
> "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
> > 303-226-9939/0688 Office/Fax
> > 720-320-1537 cell
> > 
> > > -----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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