Date: Tue, 24 Sep 1996 09:30:16 -0600
From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
To: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>
Cc: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>, current@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: install on {Net,Open}BSD vs install on FreeBSD
Message-ID: <199609241530.JAA06226@rover.village.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 24 Sep 1996 09:12:11 MDT." <199609241512.JAA06843@rocky.mt.sri.com>
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In message <199609241512.JAA06843@rocky.mt.sri.com> Nate Williams writes: : Doesn't GNU-install support '-d'? If so, the functionality is already : available. Are you saying "gnu-install does it, just use that" or "gnu-install does it, so there is more precident?" If the former, then I'd just build NetBSD's install, since it supports it and the FreeBSD -C extention. If the latter, then I'll go ahead and commit the -d dir chnages :-). Why is there so much resistance to 10 lines of code already integrated and tested in NetBSD and OpenBSD? I'd really like to see a gradual merging of the code bases where appropriate. This sounds to me like a no brainer: No one is using -d on FreeBSD (now that -d -> -D) and other BSDs (NetBSD, OpenBSD and SunOS) have it as well as it being in SysV's /usr/ucb/install. So there is precidents for inclusion. Sorry to sound a little frustrated, but the grabbing the code from NetBSD, putting it into FreeBSD's install and testing it took less time than I've spent writing email on this topic. Warner
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