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Date:      Tue, 8 Jul 1997 01:23:34 -0700 (PDT)
From:      asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami)
To:        peter@FreeBSD.ORG
Cc:        cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-ports@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: ports/mail/exmh2 Makefile
Message-ID:  <199707080823.BAA06371@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU>
In-Reply-To: <199707080245.TAA01322@freefall.freebsd.org> (message from Peter Wemm on Mon, 7 Jul 1997 19:45:57 -0700 (PDT))

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 *   Run scripts with /bin/sh explicitly rather than depending on the x bits
 *   being set.  I don't know what isn't copying the x bits, but don't depend
 *   on it.

ftp maybe?

Actually we should drop all the x bits in the ports' scripts (if we
can -- will something like "find /home/ncvs/ports -type f | xargs
chmod -x" work?) to make sure nothing breaks.  It is not recommended
to rely on the x bit (this has been mentioned on this list many
times).

Satoshi



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