Date: Tue, 24 Sep 1996 18:31:05 -0400 (EDT)
From: Chuck Robey <chuckr@glue.umd.edu>
To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
Cc: Warner Losh <imp@village.org>, Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>, current@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: install on {Net,Open}BSD vs install on FreeBSD
Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.3.95.960924182942.3981D-100000@maryann.eng.umd.edu>
In-Reply-To: <7269.843592395@time.cdrom.com>
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On Tue, 24 Sep 1996, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
> > I'd still like to merge in the -d code from NetBSD/OpenBSD. SunOS
> > also sets the precident. While it is true the permissions aren't
> > exactly right, other software than FreeBSD's 'make install' uses this
> > to make sure directories are present. This other software does happen
>
> I tend to agree. The mtree files represent an "idealized" view of the
> permission hierarchy and are certainly preferable to all else in
> creating an installation which has all directories created with the
> appropriate permissions, but in practice it's not practical to run the
> mtree files every time you want to install some random port which is
> going to want to create new directories under /usr/local, /usr/X11R6
> or some other central location.
>
> I'd say implement -d also, but discourage its use in the ports collection.
I don't think you have to worry about that, bsd.port.mk has it's own set
of ${INSTALL_***} macros, and everybody doing ports uses them.
>
> Jordan
>
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