Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2014 23:40:04 +0200 From: Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org> To: Craig Rodrigues <rodrigc@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-current Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>, Emanuel Haupt <ehaupt@freebsd.org>, ports <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: shells/bash port, add a knob which symlinks to /bin/bash ? Message-ID: <20140912214004.GT6096@ivaldir.etoilebsd.net> In-Reply-To: <CAG=rPVf5z4c6aheCngKy1g-iH8HexAWGQfHoSbtU9D1UC0Pbpg@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAG=rPVf5z4c6aheCngKy1g-iH8HexAWGQfHoSbtU9D1UC0Pbpg@mail.gmail.com>
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--uWCTLymdFNG0vGYZ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 02:12:45PM -0700, Craig Rodrigues wrote: > Hi, >=20 > In the last 3 jobs that I have worked at, there have been > a mix of Linux machines and FreeBSD machines. > When using an NIS or LDAP environment where > there is a single login across multiple machines, it is useful to > have a single shell setting. >=20 > Since Linux and MacOS X have "/bin/bash" as the shell, > in order to get the FreeBSD boxes to play in this environment, > I have seen admins do the following on FreeBSD setups: > ln -s /usr/local/bin/bash /bin/bash >=20 > or >=20 > ln /usr/local/bin/bash /bin/bash >=20 > and then make sure that /etc/shells as: > /usr/local/bin/bash > /bin/bash >=20 > Can we add an optional knob (turned off by default) which creates this > symlink > and updates /etc/shells? >=20 > This would help with interoperability of FreeBSD hosts in environments mi= xed > with Linux and MacOS X. >=20 Please no, no and no! We are fighting for a very long time to prevent the ports to pollute base. We have added the shebangfix USES to be able to catch with up with cleanup = this properly as well as a qa test to discover it automatically. no interpreters at all have a symlink in base but perl and this one is goin= g to be removed. If you want interoperability just use /usr/bin/env bash as a shebang. Btw y= ou cannot get interoprability with OS-X in there because the bash they do prov= ide is the last GPL-2 recent bash have many incompatiblities with this old vers= ion. regards, Bapt --uWCTLymdFNG0vGYZ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iEYEARECAAYFAlQTaDQACgkQ8kTtMUmk6EzmwwCfWF5BSfz6bt5fSCl5LLQBrq9a v4kAn3nBv0oc40nBTHESWTV7A6iGalb+ =x3Ob -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --uWCTLymdFNG0vGYZ--
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