Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2014 15:02:05 -0700 From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: shells/bash port, add a knob which symlinks to /bin/bash ? Message-ID: <54136D5D.3090905@mu.org> In-Reply-To: <20140912214004.GT6096@ivaldir.etoilebsd.net> References: <CAG=rPVf5z4c6aheCngKy1g-iH8HexAWGQfHoSbtU9D1UC0Pbpg@mail.gmail.com> <20140912214004.GT6096@ivaldir.etoilebsd.net>
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The correct thing is to make a port/pkg that installs the symlink and /etc/shells this for the user. There is no need for changes to 'base' nor do we need a change to the system port. -Alfred On 9/12/14 2:40 PM, Baptiste Daroussin wrote: > On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 02:12:45PM -0700, Craig Rodrigues wrote: >> Hi, >> >> In the last 3 jobs that I have worked at, there have been >> a mix of Linux machines and FreeBSD machines. >> When using an NIS or LDAP environment where >> there is a single login across multiple machines, it is useful to >> have a single shell setting. >> >> Since Linux and MacOS X have "/bin/bash" as the shell, >> in order to get the FreeBSD boxes to play in this environment, >> I have seen admins do the following on FreeBSD setups: >> ln -s /usr/local/bin/bash /bin/bash >> >> or >> >> ln /usr/local/bin/bash /bin/bash >> >> and then make sure that /etc/shells as: >> /usr/local/bin/bash >> /bin/bash >> >> Can we add an optional knob (turned off by default) which creates this >> symlink >> and updates /etc/shells? >> >> This would help with interoperability of FreeBSD hosts in environments mixed >> with Linux and MacOS X. >> > Please no, no and no! > > We are fighting for a very long time to prevent the ports to pollute base. > > We have added the shebangfix USES to be able to catch with up with cleanup this > properly as well as a qa test to discover it automatically. > > no interpreters at all have a symlink in base but perl and this one is going to > be removed. > > If you want interoperability just use /usr/bin/env bash as a shebang. Btw you > cannot get interoprability with OS-X in there because the bash they do provide > is the last GPL-2 recent bash have many incompatiblities with this old version. > > regards, > Bapt
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