From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 31 09:21:57 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC67E106566C for ; Mon, 31 Oct 2011 09:21:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from utisoft@gmail.com) Received: from mail-iy0-f182.google.com (mail-iy0-f182.google.com [209.85.210.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8CA748FC15 for ; Mon, 31 Oct 2011 09:21:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: by iabz21 with SMTP id z21so1014420iab.13 for ; Mon, 31 Oct 2011 02:21:57 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:from:date:message-id:subject:to:cc:content-type; bh=2iW1fJuSSGjQy8gpMmaXx1eJMj+GspJzci+wDU6KBok=; b=W0R5rrwByHWK4k9T97mgHbmQMHMJ2P7+T7dlNUJIFOLGPJJG0MczH/fp7jCjGiRbHa 2rMUdQS6qiJDZgN0+0fnyTp+74+FzxekCHpFOWRuQJZWVrtenZAI/oT9gBhWQamNZuF/ qqq2BkR+FmXafYfMoUFwXu8Nbt03Jy5uPQa4M= Received: by 10.231.48.203 with SMTP id s11mr4880784ibf.90.1320052917096; Mon, 31 Oct 2011 02:21:57 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.231.11.140 with HTTP; Mon, 31 Oct 2011 02:21:26 -0700 (PDT) From: Chris Rees Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2011 09:21:26 +0000 Message-ID: To: ports@freebsd.org, jharris@widomaker.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: Veniamin Gvozdikov Subject: gstat collision between sysutils/coreutils and base gstat X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2011 09:21:57 -0000 Hey all, Traditionally we've tended to use the 'g' prefix for GNU utilities; gmake, gtar etc, but apparently with stat that is a problem [1], due to the different gstat utility in base. I'm reluctant to simply rename the coreutils to gnu- prefixes, because that would upset quite a lot of things! We either need to: 1) Rename to coreutils to gnu- like most of the rest of the non-GNU world and deal with the breakage (!) 2) Make gstat an OPTION, off by default 3) Be horribly inconsistent and rename gstat to gnustat Thoughts? Chris [1] http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=160060