From owner-freebsd-arch Tue Jul 23 0:30:18 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF19D37B400 for ; Tue, 23 Jul 2002 00:30:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E1AB943E42 for ; Tue, 23 Jul 2002 00:30:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from des@ofug.org) Received: by flood.ping.uio.no (Postfix, from userid 2602) id AF2D0535C; Tue, 23 Jul 2002 09:30:12 +0200 (CEST) X-URL: http://www.ofug.org/~des/ X-Disclaimer: The views expressed in this message do not necessarily coincide with those of any organisation or company with which I am or have been affiliated. To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Cc: Andrew Reilly , Mark Valentine , jos@catnook.com, freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Package system flaws? References: <71AEEE0E-9DD3-11D6-A01D-000393038CC8@queasyweasel.com> From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: 23 Jul 2002 09:30:11 +0200 In-Reply-To: <71AEEE0E-9DD3-11D6-A01D-000393038CC8@queasyweasel.com> Message-ID: Lines: 12 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/21.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Jordan K. Hubbard" writes: > In the world of packaging, all of the post-configuration and custom > installation stuff is essentially controlled by scripts already, > they're just shell scripts and sh(1) is already notorious for its weak > variable handling (no associative arrays), cumbersome conditional > statements, rudimentary string handling primitives, and so on. So let's import a ksh. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message