Subject: Re: Changing root's shell to /bin/sh
To: Soren S. Jorvang <soren@t.dk>
From: Bill Studenmund <skippy@macro.Stanford.EDU>
List: current-users
Date: 03/18/1999 10:37:27
On Thu, 18 Mar 1999, Soren S. Jorvang wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 17, 1999 at 05:44:02PM -0800, Bill Studenmund wrote:
> > I'd vote we make the tcsh and bash packages install into root, rather than
> > pull them into the distribution. That way they're package-ized (you don't
> > want it, you don't get it, you pkg_delete, it's gone) and in /bin. They'd
> > be compiled static of course. :-)
>
> Well, that would certainly be workable.
>
> However, it complicates the issue a bit. Should all of pkgsrc/shells/*
> then put static binaries in /bin or should tcsh and bash be special-cased?
Maybe the thing to do is to make two copies of each package. One installs
into usr/pkg (technically with all the other packages) and the other
installs a static binary into /bin.
We could probably make the two packages identical (if all that's needed is
adding -static to the compile), having the static one add what it needs,
and then .include the other package's Makefile. Symlinks could mirror all
the patches over. :-)
Thus the admin gets to choose which shells are special and which aren't.
Take care,
Bill