Date: Sun, 9 Feb 2003 19:48:11 -0800 From: Sean Chittenden <sean@chittenden.org> To: Ade Lovett <ade@lovett.com> Cc: ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Randomizing master sites for distfile downloads... Message-ID: <20030210034811.GU15936@perrin.int.nxad.com> In-Reply-To: <BA6C77CA.2787B%ade@lovett.com> References: <20030210021953.GT15936@perrin.int.nxad.com> <BA6C77CA.2787B%ade@lovett.com>
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> > Pending a few more days of review of the updated version of > > random(6) on -audit [...] > > > > Thoughts/comments? -sc > > What about those systems compiled (or indeed installed) with NO_GAMES ? > > Since the only base system requirement is 'bin' or 'base' (and, > perhaps, 'crypto'), reliance of the ports structure on anything > outside of this may have bad consequences. That's precisely the reason why I have this: .if exists(/usr/games/random) in the patch. :) If a system doesn't have random(6), the worst that'll happen is they'll get a search order identical to where we are right now. Now, if you're advocating elevating random(6) to random(1), it certainly wouldn't be the 1st time I've seen a program called "random" included in /usr/bin as a part of the base distro. Given I added the mods that make this possible, I wouldn't take up trying to make this happen unless someone else thought it was a good idea. We're not talking about a huge utility here either, so I don't imagine it'd be that tough: % size random text data bss dec hex filename 5626 324 64 6014 177e /usr/games/random % ls -l /usr/games/random -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 7612 Feb 9 11:20 /usr/games/random -sc -- Sean Chittenden To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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