From owner-freebsd-current Tue Sep 24 21:10:40 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id VAA24857 for current-outgoing; Tue, 24 Sep 1996 21:10:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from godzilla.zeta.org.au (godzilla.zeta.org.au [203.2.228.19]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id VAA24816 for ; Tue, 24 Sep 1996 21:10:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from bde@localhost) by godzilla.zeta.org.au (8.7.6/8.6.9) id OAA26240; Wed, 25 Sep 1996 14:04:45 +1000 Date: Wed, 25 Sep 1996 14:04:45 +1000 From: Bruce Evans Message-Id: <199609250404.OAA26240@godzilla.zeta.org.au> To: jkh@time.cdrom.com, nate@mt.sri.com Subject: Re: install on {Net,Open}BSD vs install on FreeBSD Cc: bde@zeta.org.au, current@freebsd.org, imp@village.org Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >> 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