Subject: Re: change to pkg_install
To: Todd Vierling <tv@pobox.com>
From: Christos Zoulas <christos@zoulas.com>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 05/29/1999 18:07:44
On May 29,  6:02pm, tv@pobox.com (Todd Vierling) wrote:
-- Subject: change to pkg_install

| On Sat, 29 May 1999, Christos Zoulas wrote:
| 
| : 	basesrc/usr.sbin/pkg_install/add: extract.c
| : 	basesrc/usr.sbin/pkg_install/admin: main.c
| : 	basesrc/usr.sbin/pkg_install/create: pl.c
| : 	basesrc/usr.sbin/pkg_install/info: show.c
| : 	basesrc/usr.sbin/pkg_install/lib: plist.c
| 
| : Don't prepend directories if the plist files are absolute.
| 
| HUH!?
| 
| Exactly what's wrong with using @cwd in a PLIST to cover this case?

It is counter intuitive. I looked at the source code and someone
had started doing the check already, so the code was already inconsistent.

christos