From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 11 16:13:26 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD43916A4CE for ; Tue, 11 Jan 2005 16:13:26 +0000 (GMT) Received: from outside.taborandtashell.net (sub18-33.member.dsl-only.net [63.105.18.33]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 193A443D2D for ; Tue, 11 Jan 2005 16:13:26 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from tkelly-freebsd-questions@taborandtashell.net) Received: (qmail 50192 invoked from network); 11 Jan 2005 08:13:21 -0800 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.0.9?) (tkelly@192.168.0.9) by 192.168.0.2 with AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP; 11 Jan 2005 08:13:21 -0800 Message-ID: <41E3FB17.3070003@taborandtashell.net> Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2005 08:13:11 -0800 From: Tabor Kelly User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20041230) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Duane Winner References: <41E3F834.90208@att.net> In-Reply-To: <41E3F834.90208@att.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: bash version? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: tkelly-freebsd-questions@taborandtashell.net List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2005 16:13:26 -0000 Duane Winner wrote: > Hi all, > > I use bash instead of the default csh shell that is part of FreeBSD world. > > I am revising my in-house installation manual for FreeBSD 5.3, and it > just came my attention that there is (actually has been I guess) bash > version 3 available as a port. > > But FreeBSD appears to want to use 2.05b as the default. > > Does anybody know of any good reason why I should stick to 2.05b? I > would like to use the latest stable version, but I don't want to go to > version 3 if there are any issues that might bite me in the butt or if > it will disrupt any other FreeBSD convention/issue that I don't know about. > > Looking at the the gnu bash site, I don't see any reason *not* to go to > version 3, but I tend to let any FreeBSD considerations trump others > when coming up with installation standards. > > Thanks for any info, > > cheers, > DW shells/bash (in ports) is now 3.0. Maybe there just isn't a (pre-compiled) package yet. I use 3.0 on my 5.3 system, and I am still using 2.05b on my 4.9 system. I haven't actually noticed any differences. -- Tabor Kelly tkelly-freebsd-questions@taborandtashell.net http://tabor.taborandtashell.net