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Date: Thu, 17 May 2001 22:01:33 +1000
From: Andrew Morton <andrewm@uow.edu.au>
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When one has several machines it is nice to keep each
machine's .config under revision control.  Then, on
each machine,

	ln [-s] .config-$(hostname -s) .config

Problem is, `make menuconfig/oldconfig/config' goes and
removes your link, causing much irritation.

--- linux-2.4.4-ac9/scripts/Configure	Sun Dec 31 13:16:13 2000
+++ ac/scripts/Configure	Sun May  6 09:40:25 2001
@@ -566,9 +566,10 @@
 
 rm -f .config.old
 if [ -f .config ]; then
-	mv .config .config.old
+	cp .config .config.old
 fi
-mv .tmpconfig .config
+cp .tmpconfig .config
+rm .tmpconfig
 mv .tmpconfig.h include/linux/autoconf.h
 
 echo
--- linux-2.4.4-ac9/scripts/Menuconfig	Tue May 15 14:11:09 2001
+++ ac/scripts/Menuconfig	Wed May  9 11:33:30 2001
@@ -1290,12 +1290,12 @@
 
 		if [ -f "$DEF_CONFIG" ]
 		then
-			rm -f ${DEF_CONFIG}.old
-			mv $DEF_CONFIG ${DEF_CONFIG}.old
+			cp $DEF_CONFIG ${DEF_CONFIG}.old
 		fi
 
-		mv $CONFIG $DEF_CONFIG
-			
+		cp $CONFIG $DEF_CONFIG
+		rm $CONFIG
+	
 		return 0
 	else
 		return 1


-