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Re: [tcpdump] tcpdump-4.4.0 installs duplicate binaries (#330)
From: Michael Richardson <mcr () sandelman ca>
Date: Sun, 25 Aug 2013 22:39:06 -0400
tjackson <notifications () github com> wrote: > I noticed that tcpdump-4.4.0 installs a versioned binary in addition to > tcpdump. Was this an oversight in the Makefile or intentional? Since > 'tcpdump' is duplicated as well it makes it harder to have both > versions installed, if that was the intention. > Many distribution packages I checked just remove the versioned binary. tjackson <notifications () github com> wrote: > Actually, I see now that this isn't specific to version 4.4.0. Is there > any drawback to removing the versioned binary? Assuming that you type "make install", you'll get /usr/bin/install -c tcpdump /usr/local/sbin/tcpdump /usr/bin/install -c tcpdump /usr/local/sbin/tcpdump.`cat ./VERSION` which means that "tcpdump" is whatever version you most recently installed, and "tcpdump.4.4.0" is the specific version. How is this a problem? _______________________________________________ tcpdump-workers mailing list tcpdump-workers () lists tcpdump org https://lists.sandelman.ca/mailman/listinfo/tcpdump-workers
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