Date: 11 Jul 2000 12:24:19 -0700 From: asami@freebsd.org (Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami) To: obrien@freebsd.org Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ports/shells/tcsh hack needed Message-ID: <vqczonobhcs.fsf@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu> In-Reply-To: "David O'Brien"'s message of "Tue, 11 Jul 2000 10:18:40 -0700" References: <20000711101839.A63103@dragon.nuxi.com>
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* From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org>
* 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
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