cvs commit: ports/security/ca_root_nss Makefile

Doug Barton dougb at FreeBSD.org
Fri Mar 2 09:22:47 UTC 2012


On 03/02/2012 01:20, Florian Smeets wrote:
> On 02.03.2012 10:15, Doug Barton wrote:
>> Would '${LN} -sf' have been a safer choice?
> 
> Why safer? What if someone has a link pointing to another cert file?
> ${LN} -sf would just overwrite it. Now we only create the link if it's
> not there. IMHO the safest choice for all cases, no?

If the user chooses that option, the port should own the link. Having
the link point to a stale location is infinitely more likely than the
user choosing that option but not intending it to actually happen.


Doug

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