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From: Laurent Wacrenier <lwa@teaser.fr>
To: markp@FreeBSD.org
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Subject: Re: ports/20601: DESTDIR and /etc/shells
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markp@FreeBSD.org wrote:
> Synopsis: DESTDIR and /etc/shells
> 
> State-Changed-From-To: open->closed
> State-Changed-By: markp
> State-Changed-When: Thu Jun 7 07:47:11 PDT 2001
> State-Changed-Why: 
> /etc/shells is special, changing ${PREFIX}/etc/shells is invalid.
> 
> http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=20601

I does not understand how special it is to allow wrong informations in
its contents.

I did not wrote about ${PREFIX} but ${DESTDIR} wich are different
macros with different semantics. DESTDIR is, for example, a chroot
jail or a NFS mounted system. Updating /etc/shell is an Bad Thing in
all case when DESTDIR is defined and is not "/".

According /usr/share/mk/bsd.README :

 The variable DESTDIR works as before.  It's not set anywhere but will change
 the tree where the file gets installed.

According /usr/src/etc/Makefile, /etc/shells is not special
in the FreeBSD source tree :

 BIN1= ... shells ...

 distribution:
       ...
       ${INSTALL} -c -o ${BINOWN} -g ${BINGRP} -m 644 ${BIN1} ${DESTDIR}/etc;
       ...


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