From owner-freebsd-arch Mon Jul 29 13:16:57 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B0AF637B4B6; Mon, 29 Jul 2002 13:16:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mailman.zeta.org.au (mailman.zeta.org.au [203.26.10.16]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5930143E4A; Mon, 29 Jul 2002 13:16:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bde@zeta.org.au) Received: from bde.zeta.org.au (bde.zeta.org.au [203.2.228.102]) by mailman.zeta.org.au (8.9.3/8.8.7) with ESMTP id GAA19804; Tue, 30 Jul 2002 06:16:45 +1000 Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2002 06:21:17 +1000 (EST) From: Bruce Evans X-X-Sender: bde@gamplex.bde.org To: Ruslan Ermilov Cc: arch@FreeBSD.org, Subject: Re: install -d -C (was: Re: cvs commit: src/share/man/man5 make.conf.5 src/share/examples/etc make.conf) In-Reply-To: <20020729094629.GA94086@sunbay.com> Message-ID: <20020730061741.S52629-100000@gamplex.bde.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 29 Jul 2002, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > On Fri, Jul 19, 2002 at 10:55:56PM +1000, Bruce Evans wrote: > > On Fri, 19 Jul 2002, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > > > OTOH, if we go this way we can get rid of ugly ${COPY} completely. > > > > I'd like to get rid of it too. But not in RELENG_4. -c has been the default > > for long enough now in -current. As you know, there are various problems > > in using the correctly named variable for install(1)'s flags (INSTALLFLAGS) > > to actually hold install's flags in a general way (mainly, this variable > > already exists and is used in a non-general way). However, the old hack > > of putting the flags in the same variable as the command still works well > > except for the -[Cp] vs -d conflict. This depends on the flags not being > > order-dependent. > > > OK, -[CpS] are now ignored with -d, and I've dropped support for COPY. > I have a question. Why COPY can't be removed from RELENG_4 as well? > Ports that use COPY (there are many of them) will see it as an empty > string. -c hasn't been the default for so long in RELENG_4, so I think the change has too lrge a risk/reward ratio. Bruce To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message