Date: Mon, 23 Dec 1996 11:06:13 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: ports@freebsd.org Cc: imp@village.org Subject: Re: Need a quick review of some bsd.port.mk changes Message-ID: <199612231006.LAA02493@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <11334.851331687@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at "Dec 23, 96 01:01:27 am"
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As Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
> > .if (${OPSYS} == "NetBSD")
> > MD5?= /usr/bin/md5
> > +.elif (${OPSYS} == "OpenBSD")
> > +MD5?= /bin/md5
> > .else
> > MD5?= /sbin/md5
>
> Not to condemn these patches in general, but *jesus christ*, can't ANY
> of the 3 BSD OSes agree on where md5 should go? :-( :-(
And, to continue with this, it should IMHO be expressed as:
.if (exists /usr/bin/md5)
MD5?= /usr/bin/md5
.elif (exists /bin/md5)
MD5?= /bin/md5
.else
MD5?= /sbin/md5
...so if we later on decide that we'd better move it to /bin, too, we
don't need to change the bsd.ports.mk again.
> What's our rationale for having it in /sbin again?
The rationale to have it in either /sbin or /bin was IMHO to have it
statically linked and available early in single-user mode. Probably
the only one who could enlighten us about why /sbin has chosen is Paul
Traina (who's currently away from email AFAIK).
> > +.if (${OPSYS} == "OpenBSD")
> > +FETCH_CMD?= /usr/bin/ftp
> > +.else
> > FETCH_CMD?= /usr/bin/fetch
> > +.endif
.if (exists /usr/bin/fetch)
FETCH_CMD?= /usr/bin/fetch
.else
FETCH_CMD?= /usr/bin/ftp
.endif
> > +.if (${OPSYS} == "OpenBSD")
(see above)
> > +EXTRACT_CMD?= /bin/tar
> > +.else
> > EXTRACT_CMD?= /usr/bin/tar
> > +.endif
>
> Bleah.. See md5 comments. :-(
Our tar is also statically linked, but still resides in /usr/bin
nevertheless. We apparently don't expect people to use a poorly
designed tool for restoring their filesystems, in case /usr is
gone. :-)
--
cheers, J"org
joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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