From owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 26 14:18:18 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C44910656B0 for ; Tue, 26 Jun 2012 14:18:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from des@des.no) Received: from smtp.des.no (smtp.des.no [194.63.250.102]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB49B8FC0C for ; Tue, 26 Jun 2012 14:18:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ds4.des.no (smtp.des.no [194.63.250.102]) by smtp.des.no (Postfix) with ESMTP id CDCBC6EC3; Tue, 26 Jun 2012 14:18:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ds4.des.no (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 877438C51; Tue, 26 Jun 2012 16:18:16 +0200 (CEST) From: =?utf-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= To: Warner Losh References: <20120626063017.D05DA58081@chaos.jnpr.net> <86wr2uwdgf.fsf@ds4.des.no> <367C13EE-D631-4864-B873-FE912E6727A4@bsdimp.com> Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2012 16:18:16 +0200 In-Reply-To: <367C13EE-D631-4864-B873-FE912E6727A4@bsdimp.com> (Warner Losh's message of "Tue, 26 Jun 2012 07:59:26 -0600") Message-ID: <86obo6w40n.fsf@ds4.des.no> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.3 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org, Simon Gerraty Subject: Re: Allow user install X-BeenThere: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion related to FreeBSD architecture List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2012 14:18:18 -0000 Warner Losh writes: > Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav writes: > > I've been thinking for a while that some bor^H^H^Henterprising soul > > should hack install(1) so that if a specific environment variable is > > set, it writes the file to a tarball instead of writing it to disk. > > Unfortunately, there would still be a ton of ${LN} etc. that would need > > to be handled somehow. Perhaps install(1) should have an option to > > create symlinks so we could use that instead of ln -s, in the interest > > of reducing the number of different tools used during installation. > I'd prefer that to this hack, honestly, but this hack is cool. NetBSD > did this years ago, and bringing it and the changes to xtree would be > a good thing. There's also a number of mkdirs that also need to be > updated. Let's not reinvent the wheel here, when there's a perfectly > good wheel elsewhere. We already have install -d for mkdir, and in any case, very few Makefiles actually create directories. But if the Makefiles use ${LN} instead of ln, we can easily point LN at a tool (perhaps even just a shell script) that does whatever is needed to record the symlink in the tarball instead of creating it on disk. DES --=20 Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav - des@des.no