From owner-freebsd-current Wed May 8 11:52:37 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mailgate.originative.com (mailgate.originative.com [195.149.39.165]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD46837B40E; Wed, 8 May 2002 11:52:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from lobster.originative.co.uk (lobster.originative.co.uk [62.232.68.81]) by mailgate.originative.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id E7FE91B24F; Wed, 8 May 2002 19:52:23 +0100 (BST) Subject: Re: The future of perl on FreeBSD From: Paul Richards To: "Mr. Mark Murray" Cc: Robert Watson , current@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <200205080802.g4882FjV006670@grimreaper.grondar.org> References: <200205080802.g4882FjV006670@grimreaper.grondar.org> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.0.3 Date: 08 May 2002 19:52:25 +0100 Message-Id: <1020883945.90871.2.camel@lobster.originative.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 2002-05-08 at 10:02, Mark Murray wrote: > > First question is -- people are going to be upgrading FreeBSD. Having a > > stale /usr/bin/perl is going to muck stuff up royally. Likewise, many > > existing scripts use /usr/bin/perl at that location. Can we simply have a > > symlink that points /usr/bin/perl at /usr/local/bin/perl (and any related > > pseudo-programs such as suidperl, etc) as part of the normal install along > > with the perl package. > > DES(?) has a piece of code (to be called /usr/bin/perl) that will find the > "real" perl and DTRT. I much prefer the symlink approach. I don't think some wrapper program in the base tree buys us anything. You might as well have nothing sit in the /usr/bin/perl position, and have the port create the symlink. It's a bit unusual for a port to do that but I think this is a special case. -- Paul Richards | FreeBSD DVD releases and merchandise. FreeBSD Services Ltd | Hardware, support and development. http://www.freebsd-services.com | Domain names and mail/web hosting. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message