Date: Wed, 25 Sep 1996 14:04:45 +1000
From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To: jkh@time.cdrom.com, nate@mt.sri.com
Cc: bde@zeta.org.au, current@freebsd.org, imp@village.org
Subject: Re: install on {Net,Open}BSD vs install on FreeBSD
Message-ID: <199609250404.OAA26240@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>> Why is 'install -d' considered to be a 'bad thing'? Because it >> encourage bad installation practices when a better installation method >> exists. > >All fine, but also somewhat irrelevant in the fact of several facts: > >1. The other *BSDs are using it, and failure to implement it will > leave us gratuitously incompatible in Yet Another Way. That sucks. Script started on Tue Sep 24 13:52:08 1996 ttyp1:bde@spatter:/a/bde> uname -a BSD/OS spatter.freebsd.org 2.1 BSDI BSD/OS 2.1 Kernel #0: Fri Sep 6 01:35:18 PDT 1996 root@spatter.freebsd.org:/usr/src/sys/compile/SPATTER i386 ttyp1:bde@spatter:/a/bde> install -d zz zz1 install: illegal option -- d usage: install [-cs] [-f flags] [-g group] [-m mode] [-o owner] file1 file2; or file1 ... fileN directory ttyp1:bde@spatter:/a/bde> exit exit Script done on Tue Sep 24 13:52:26 1996 >The flag is not being used for anything else, people don't have to use it >if they don't want to, I'd say just compatibilty alone is a sufficient >argument - I certainly don't want to be explaining to people why of the >three BSDs, FreeBSD chose to be different. >= six. BSD4.4, BSD4.4Lite, BSDI, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD. Bruce
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