From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Apr 4 19:14:30 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id TAA29484 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 4 Apr 1995 19:14:30 -0700 Received: from ref.tfs.com (ref.tfs.com [140.145.254.251]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id TAA29478 for ; Tue, 4 Apr 1995 19:14:26 -0700 Received: (from phk@localhost) by ref.tfs.com (8.6.8/8.6.6) id TAA05425; Tue, 4 Apr 1995 19:13:44 -0700 From: Poul-Henning Kamp Message-Id: <199504050213.TAA05425@ref.tfs.com> Subject: Re: new install(1) utility To: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) Date: Tue, 4 Apr 1995 19:13:43 -0700 (PDT) Cc: nate@sneezy.sri.com, nate@trout.sri.MT.net, rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com, freebsd-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com In-Reply-To: <9504050200.AA25538@cs.weber.edu> from "Terry Lambert" at Apr 4, 95 08:00:00 pm Content-Type: text Content-Length: 824 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Julian put forth a persuasive argument to this effect just recently, > and I agree, in theory. My problem is that this is going to change the > iden strings in the binary in any case, and the compare will *always* > show differences. > > I don't see a reasonable way around this. Not true. I ran with a local hack to install which did just this, and even though it was a kludge, it saved time on the average make world. I don't think any file will change substantially, as long they come from the same version from the CVS-tree. > Oh, cmon, ...please! Can't I have a little bit of peril? 8-). Sure Terry, when do we get you patches ? -- Poul-Henning Kamp -- TRW Financial Systems, Inc. 'All relevant people are pertinent' && 'All rude people are impertinent' => 'no rude people are relevant'