From 9c8da4c4c27a3ff7ce8d258a08a15ed856c93024 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Gerard Beekmans Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2001 17:27:40 +0000 Subject: added exp. what make update does git-svn-id: http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@1179 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689 --- chapter06/nettools-exp.xml | 16 ++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+) create mode 100644 chapter06/nettools-exp.xml diff --git a/chapter06/nettools-exp.xml b/chapter06/nettools-exp.xml new file mode 100644 index 000000000..0f8216665 --- /dev/null +++ b/chapter06/nettools-exp.xml @@ -0,0 +1,16 @@ + +Command explanations + +make update: This does the same as a +make install with the exception that make update +doesn't make backups of files it's replacing. One of the things +net-tools replaces is sh-utils's version of +/bin/hostname (net-tools's version is far better +than sh-utils's version). + +Also, if you decide to reinstall this package at some point in the +future, a make update won't backup all the files +from a previous net-tools installation. + + + -- cgit v1.2.3-54-g00ecf