Date: Mon, 01 Nov 1999 18:02:51 -0500 (EST) From: John Baldwin <jobaldwi@vt.edu> To: "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> Cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, (Chris Costello) <chris@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/mergemaster Makefile mergemaster Message-ID: <199911012302.SAA95938@server.baldwin.cx> In-Reply-To: <199911011727.JAA40199@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>
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On 01-Nov-99 Rodney W. Grimes wrote:
>> chris 1999/10/31 20:29:06 PST
>>
>> Modified files:
>> usr.sbin/mergemaster Makefile
>> Removed files:
>> usr.sbin/mergemaster mergemaster
>> Log:
>> ``mergemaster'' was repo-copied to ``mergemaster.sh'' as it's a
>> shell script.
>>
>> Delete the original mergemaster and modify Makefile to install
>> mergemaster.sh.
>
> Does it install it as ``mergmaster.sh''? If so then this is not a
> good idea,
> there have always been things that are shell scipts installed in *bin
> that are
> not called *.sh:
>
> gndrsh:rgrimes {1015}% file /usr/bin/* | grep -i shell
> /usr/bin/apropos: Bourne shell script text
./gnu/usr.bin/man/apropos/apropos.sh
> /usr/bin/c89: Bourne shell script text
src/usr.bin/c89/c89.sh
> /usr/bin/clear: Bourne shell script text
./usr.bin/tput/clear.sh
etc..
Using .sh in src/ and then installing without the '.sh' is very
prominent throughout teh source tree. Shoot, even sys.mk includes
rules for installing foo.sh as foo and making it executable. I
completely understood the commit message, and the silent majority seems
to have as well.
<rant>
I like green bike sheds myself.
</rant>
> --
> Rod Grimes - KD7CAX @ CN85sl - (RWG25)
> rgrimes@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net
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