Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2003 01:24:45 -0800 From: Eivind Eklund <eivind@FreeBSD.org> To: Peter Jeremy <PeterJeremy@optushome.com.au> Cc: cvs-src@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src Makefile.inc1 Message-ID: <20031215092445.GA91309@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20031215083703.GB956@cirb503493.alcatel.com.au>
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On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 07:37:04PM +1100, Peter Jeremy wrote: > Not in the absence of stat(1) :-(. As an alternative, maybe ls(1) > could grow an option to spit out the mode in octal - assuming there > are any spare opton letters left. The simplest solution would seem > to be to MFC stat(1) to 4.x. The only other alternative would be a > (messy) awk script to convert the mode letters in 'ls -l' output to > an octal number. Or recommending that people that want to run a perl-less system on 4.x use etcmerge (/usr/ports/sysutils/etcmerge/) instead of mergemaster. This solves the problem, *and* gives them less work (3-way instead of 2-way merge) ;-) BTW: etcmerge has grown easier to bootstrap - I've provided tarballs of just /etc for our last few releases. (If anybody can help me with trustworthy tarballs of just the etc partion of bin/base from previous releases, I'm interested - the actual releases does not seem easily available on the cluster.) Eivind.
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