Date: 24 Mar 2002 20:39:28 -0500 From: Brandon S Allbery KF8NH <allbery@ece.cmu.edu> To: FreeBSD Stable <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: mergemaster mtree:No such file or directory Message-ID: <1017020372.18548.11.camel@pyanfar.ece.cmu.edu> In-Reply-To: <20020324161623.B82944@blossom.cjclark.org> References: <E16pD03-000Gow-00@rip.psg.com> <6E639CB8-3F7E-11D6-B638-0030655293B0@zenspider.com> <20020324154542.B82432@blossom.cjclark.org> <E16pHjB-0000tt-00@rip.psg.com> <20020324161623.B82944@blossom.cjclark.org>
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On Sun, 2002-03-24 at 19:16, Crist J. Clark wrote: > Again, I think this is a bad idea. I see places one might want to take > advangate of PATH. Example: So you have e.g. "mergemaster -E" which keeps the user's environment, and otherwise sanitize it. Mergemaster strikes me as something critical enough that you *really* want a known toolchain when it's running; it would be Bad if (say) the difference between FreeBSD "ln" and GNU "ln" caused mergemaster to break things if it ran the wrong one. -- brandon s. allbery [os/2][linux][solaris][japh] allbery@kf8nh.apk.net system administrator [WAY too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu electrical and computer engineering KF8NH carnegie mellon university ["better check the oblivious first" -ke6sls] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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