From owner-freebsd-ports Tue Jul 11 12:27:57 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from granger.mail.mindspring.net (granger.mail.mindspring.net [207.69.200.148]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 09DDE37B82B; Tue, 11 Jul 2000 12:27:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from asami@cs.berkeley.edu) Received: from silvia.hip.berkeley.edu (sji-ca14-12.ix.netcom.com [205.186.215.12]) by granger.mail.mindspring.net (8.9.3/8.8.5) with ESMTP id PAA18575; Tue, 11 Jul 2000 15:26:48 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from asami@localhost) by silvia.hip.berkeley.edu (8.9.3/8.6.9) id MAA59631; Tue, 11 Jul 2000 12:25:21 -0700 (PDT) To: obrien@freebsd.org Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ports/shells/tcsh hack needed References: <20000711101839.A63103@dragon.nuxi.com> From: asami@freebsd.org (Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami) Date: 11 Jul 2000 12:24:19 -0700 In-Reply-To: "David O'Brien"'s message of "Tue, 11 Jul 2000 10:18:40 -0700" Message-ID: Lines: 19 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.7/Emacs 20.7 Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org * From: "David O'Brien" * Could someone change the Tcsh port so that rather than being FORBIDDEN on * systems with /bin/tcsh (and the filename rather than FreeBSD version * should probably be used), it instead installs a symlink from /bin/tcsh to * $PREFIX/bin and updates /etc/shells. The reason being is that other * systems have tcsh in /usr/local and we've made the NIS administrator's * job harder. We usually don't allow ports to write in system directories other than /etc, but in this case, it should be ok. Reasoning: the reason why we don't allow ports to write to system directories is because people updating their system by backing up /etc and /{compat,usr/{local,X11R6}} and doing a binary install could lose some of their hacks. However, since the "new system" in this case includes /bin/tcsh, there is nothing to be lost here. Satoshi To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message