Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2007 15:41:28 +0600 From: "Denis Eremenko <moonshade@pnhz.kz>" <moonshade@pnhz.kz> To: "FreeBSD gnats submit" <FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org> Subject: bin/118260: bin: more informative error message for install(1) Message-ID: <1196070088.89863@abyss.pnhz.kz> Resent-Message-ID: <200711260950.lAQ9o4k4021485@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 118260
>Category: bin
>Synopsis: bin: more informative error message for install(1)
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: freebsd-bugs
>State: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Mon Nov 26 09:50:04 UTC 2007
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Denis Eremenko <moonshade@pnhz.kz>
>Release: FreeBSD 6.3-PRERELEASE i386
>Organization:
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD 6.3-PRERELEASE #0: Mon Nov 19 17:10:51 ALMT 2007
moonshade@abyss.pnhz.kz:/usr/obj/data/os/FreeBSD/src/6/src/sys/ABYSS-6
>Description:
More informative error message for install(1) in "install file1 ... fileN directory" case.
Originally it says "wrong number or types of arguments" and it takes some time to understand that "directory" is simply missing.
>How-To-Repeat:
>Fix:
--- patch-xinstall begins here ---
--- xinstall.c.orig 2007-11-26 14:57:23.000000000 +0600
+++ xinstall.c 2007-11-26 15:22:38.000000000 +0600
@@ -216,7 +216,7 @@
/* can't do file1 file2 directory/file */
if (argc != 2) {
- warnx("wrong number or types of arguments");
+ warnx("wrong number or types of arguments, target does not exist or not a directory");
usage();
}
--- patch-xinstall ends here ---
>Release-Note:
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