Now we fail silently if the file exists, which means there is no easy way to overwrite binaries. I think it makes the most sense to do the following: 1) add all the busybox stuff as a basic system; 2) overwrite some of the links with any binaries we add to base hook; 3) allow users to write their own hooks to overwrite even more stuff. This can now be done by this hook. v2: make sure we are able to overwrite a symlink pointing to a directory Signed-off-by: Tom Gundersen <teg@jklm.no> --- functions | 4 +--- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/functions b/functions index ef4463e..401fa5c 100644 --- a/functions +++ b/functions @@ -82,7 +82,6 @@ _add_file() { # $3: mode (( $# == 3 )) || return $EINVAL - [[ -e "$BUILDROOT$1" ]] && return $EEXIST (( QUIET )) || plain "adding file: %s" "$1" command install -Dm$3 "$2" "$BUILDROOT$1" @@ -106,10 +105,9 @@ _add_symlink() { # $2: target of $1 (( $# == 2 )) || return $EINVAL - [[ -L "$BUILDROOT$1" ]] && return $EEXIST (( QUIET )) || plain "adding symlink: %s -> %s" "$1" "$2" - ln -s "$2" "$BUILDROOT$1" + ln -sfn "$2" "$BUILDROOT$1" } auto_modules() { -- 1.7.7.4