Re: [gentoo-user] Dumb symlink question

2006-02-14 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Tuesday 14 February 2006 15:14, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] Dumb symlink question': > On Fri, 10 Feb 2006 01:43:21 -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > > > ln doesn't overwrite symlinks to directories, although this is no

Re: [gentoo-user] Dumb symlink question

2006-02-14 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 10 Feb 2006 01:43:21 -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > > ln doesn't overwrite symlinks to directories, although this is not > > mentioned in the man page. Either delete the link first, or emerge > > your new kernel source with the symlink USE flag. > > That's just not true. Heck, I

Re: [gentoo-user] Dumb symlink question

2006-02-09 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Thursday 09 February 2006 02:38, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] Dumb symlink question': > On Thu, 9 Feb 2006 07:45:53 +, Stroller wrote: > > This has been bugging me for some time, but I've never gotten around > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Dumb symlink question

2006-02-09 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Thursday 09 February 2006 01:45, Stroller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about '[gentoo-user] Dumb symlink question': > This has been bugging me for some time, but I've never gotten around > to posting about it here before. Why doesn't the symlink get > overw

Re: [gentoo-user] Dumb symlink question

2006-02-09 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 9 Feb 2006 07:45:53 +, Stroller wrote: > This has been bugging me for some time, but I've never gotten around > to posting about it here before. Why doesn't the symlink get > overwritten, please? ln doesn't overwrite symlinks to directories, although this is not mentioned in the m

[gentoo-user] Dumb symlink question

2006-02-08 Thread Stroller
This has been bugging me for some time, but I've never gotten around to posting about it here before. Why doesn't the symlink get overwritten, please? The behaviour I see below seems quite at odds to the documentation in the man page (but then, perhaps I simply haven't read the mapage prope