From owner-freebsd-bugs Fri Sep 20 15:34:59 1996 Return-Path: owner-bugs Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id PAA02651 for bugs-outgoing; Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:34:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from lestat.nas.nasa.gov (lestat.nas.nasa.gov [129.99.50.29]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id PAA02612 for ; Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:34:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by lestat.nas.nasa.gov (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id PAA25341; Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:25:42 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199609202225.PAA25341@lestat.nas.nasa.gov> X-Authentication-Warning: lestat.nas.nasa.gov: Host localhost [127.0.0.1] didn't use HELO protocol To: Bruce Evans Cc: asami@freebsd.org, freebsd-bugs@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: bin/1643: Support for NetBSD in bsd.port.mk Reply-To: Jason Thorpe From: Jason Thorpe Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:25:42 -0700 Sender: owner-bugs@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 20 Sep 1996 22:47:46 +1000 Bruce Evans wrote: > Not so OK. We originally used plain `md5', but changed it because people > might not have /sbin in $PATH. md5 is in /sbin because it might be useful > for checking security before mounting /usr. I don't like having absolute > paths anywhere in the build. This is, of course, an architecural decision you'll have to make. I'm basically concerned with making one "ports" makefile work on FreeBSD and NetBSD. IMO, placing md5 in /sbin is of dubious value (that's a discussion for somewhere else :-), thus is belongs in /usr/bin (with other checksumming utilities). I don't mind just calling it "md5", since NetBSD users will basically always have /usr/bin in their patch. I was merely following the convention which appeared to be used in the file. (BTW, IMO the user should have /sbin in their path, since the 4.4BSD security model allows non-priveliged users to use mount(8), etc. So, making it "md5" and having it crap out if a user doesn't have /sbin in their PATH is just ducky with me :-) -- save the ancient forests - http://www.bayarea.net/~thorpej/forest/ -- Jason R. Thorpe thorpej@nas.nasa.gov NASA Ames Research Center Home: 408.866.1912 NAS: M/S 258-6 Work: 415.604.0935 Moffett Field, CA 94035 Pager: 415.428.6939