From owner-freebsd-current Sun Sep 22 13:30:56 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id NAA28063 for current-outgoing; Sun, 22 Sep 1996 13:30:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from po2.glue.umd.edu (po2.glue.umd.edu [129.2.128.45]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id NAA28039 for ; Sun, 22 Sep 1996 13:30:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from packet.eng.umd.edu (packet.eng.umd.edu [129.2.98.184]) by po2.glue.umd.edu (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id QAA08497; Sun, 22 Sep 1996 16:30:46 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (chuckr@localhost) by packet.eng.umd.edu (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id QAA31914; Sun, 22 Sep 1996 16:30:19 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: packet.eng.umd.edu: chuckr owned process doing -bs Date: Sun, 22 Sep 1996 16:30:05 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Robey X-Sender: chuckr@packet.eng.umd.edu To: Warner Losh cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: install on {Net,Open}BSD vs install on FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <199609221956.NAA17147@rover.village.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 22 Sep 1996, Warner Losh wrote: > I've found a difference in the way the install command's syntax and > functionality on {Net,Open}BSD (hereafter "other BSDs") vs FreeBSD. > > In the other BSDs, install -d means to create the directory. In > FreeBSD it means to turn on debugging. I propose that we implement > the other BSDs' -d semantics in FreeBSD, and change -d -> -D for > debugging. I kinda like the other BSDs functionality, so I thought > I'd see if there was interest in importing into FreeBSD. > > I'll be happy to make the needed patches to install, but I'd like to > try the waters with this idea before I go off and do a lot of work and > to get feedback on the wisdom of this change. Yes, including the man > page :-). > > My take: Changing a debugging flag should have minimal impact on the > install base of FreeBSD. Merging of the syntax (if not the actual > code) of the install programs is a good thing for the BSD community in > general, and the FreeBSD speficially. It should be done, and should > cause few, if any, problems. I just checked, it's like that on Suns (at least the local sparcserver had it under the bsd compatibility package). Seems like a fair bet to me, and I don't think it would break anything in ports. > > Comments? > > Warner > ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@eng.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 9120 Edmonston Ct #302 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run Journey2 and n3lxx, both FreeBSD (301) 220-2114 | version 2.2 current -- and great FUN! ----------------------------+-----------------------------------------------