From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Mar 24 17:39:47 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from ece.cmu.edu (ECE.CMU.EDU [128.2.136.200]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 749B337B405 for ; Sun, 24 Mar 2002 17:39:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from pyanfar.ece.cmu.edu (allbery@VPN57.ECE.CMU.EDU [128.2.138.57]) (authenticated) by ece.cmu.edu (8.11.0/8.10.2) with ESMTP id g2P1dZw29590 for ; Sun, 24 Mar 2002 20:39:35 -0500 (EST) Subject: Re: mergemaster mtree:No such file or directory From: Brandon S Allbery KF8NH To: FreeBSD Stable In-Reply-To: <20020324161623.B82944@blossom.cjclark.org> References: <6E639CB8-3F7E-11D6-B638-0030655293B0@zenspider.com> <20020324154542.B82432@blossom.cjclark.org> <20020324161623.B82944@blossom.cjclark.org> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Evolution/1.0.2 Date: 24 Mar 2002 20:39:28 -0500 Message-Id: <1017020372.18548.11.camel@pyanfar.ece.cmu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 2002-03-24 at 19:16, Crist J. Clark wrote: > Again, I think this is a bad idea. I see places one might want to take > advangate of PATH. Example: So you have e.g. "mergemaster -E" which keeps the user's environment, and otherwise sanitize it. Mergemaster strikes me as something critical enough that you *really* want a known toolchain when it's running; it would be Bad if (say) the difference between FreeBSD "ln" and GNU "ln" caused mergemaster to break things if it ran the wrong one. -- brandon s. allbery [os/2][linux][solaris][japh] allbery@kf8nh.apk.net system administrator [WAY too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu electrical and computer engineering KF8NH carnegie mellon university ["better check the oblivious first" -ke6sls] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message