71 messages in org.freebsd.freebsd-stable[HEADS UP] perl symlinks in /usr/bin ...| From | Sent On | Attachments |
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| Anton Berezin | Jan 29, 2005 12:32 pm | |
| Kirill Ponomarew | Jan 29, 2005 1:02 pm | |
| Kris Kennaway | Jan 29, 2005 1:08 pm | |
| Oliver Lehmann | Jan 29, 2005 1:21 pm | |
| Steven Hartland | Jan 29, 2005 1:21 pm | |
| Anton Berezin | Jan 29, 2005 1:22 pm | |
| Chuck Swiger | Jan 29, 2005 1:22 pm | |
| Erik Trulsson | Jan 29, 2005 1:26 pm | |
| Robert Watson | Jan 29, 2005 2:17 pm | |
| Mark Kirkwood | Jan 29, 2005 2:27 pm | |
| Dimitry Andric | Jan 29, 2005 2:50 pm | |
| Phil Kernick | Jan 29, 2005 3:28 pm | |
| Edwin Groothuis | Jan 29, 2005 4:02 pm | |
| Fred Condo | Jan 29, 2005 4:41 pm | |
| Peter Jeremy | Jan 29, 2005 5:00 pm | |
| Douglas G. Allen | Jan 29, 2005 6:37 pm | |
| Max Laier | Jan 29, 2005 6:37 pm | |
| Matthias Andree | Jan 29, 2005 6:39 pm | |
| Erik Trulsson | Jan 29, 2005 7:08 pm | |
| Andrew McNaughton | Jan 29, 2005 7:18 pm | |
| Andrew McNaughton | Jan 29, 2005 7:35 pm | |
| Lars Erik Gullerud | Jan 29, 2005 8:26 pm | |
| Chuck Swiger | Jan 29, 2005 8:54 pm | |
| Edwin Groothuis | Jan 29, 2005 9:00 pm | |
| Scott Long | Jan 29, 2005 9:51 pm | |
| Chris | Jan 29, 2005 10:18 pm | |
| sth...@nethelp.no | Jan 29, 2005 11:59 pm | |
| sth...@nethelp.no | Jan 30, 2005 12:16 am | |
| Oliver Brandmueller | Jan 30, 2005 1:50 am | |
| Lupe Christoph | Jan 30, 2005 2:03 am | |
| Xander Damen | Jan 30, 2005 2:13 am | |
| Chuck Swiger | Jan 30, 2005 2:31 am | |
| Lev Serebryakov | Jan 30, 2005 2:45 am | |
| Holger Kipp | Jan 30, 2005 2:47 am | |
| Kirill Ponomarew | Jan 30, 2005 2:55 am | |
| Kris Kennaway | Jan 30, 2005 2:56 am | |
| Edwin Groothuis | Jan 30, 2005 3:07 am | |
| Frerich Raabe | Jan 30, 2005 3:08 am | |
| Holger Kipp | Jan 30, 2005 3:10 am | |
| Mark Sergeant | Jan 30, 2005 3:11 am | |
| Kirill Ponomarew | Jan 30, 2005 3:18 am | |
| Mathieu Arnold | Jan 30, 2005 3:23 am | |
| Phil Bowens | Jan 30, 2005 3:24 am | |
| Kirill Ponomarew | Jan 30, 2005 3:25 am | |
| Dave Horsfall | Jan 30, 2005 3:44 am | |
| Chuck Swiger | Jan 30, 2005 3:55 am | |
| Chuck Swiger | Jan 30, 2005 4:26 am | |
| Robert Watson | Jan 30, 2005 4:49 am | |
| Robert Watson | Jan 30, 2005 4:51 am | |
| Erik Trulsson | Jan 30, 2005 5:06 am | |
| Matthias Andree | Jan 30, 2005 5:59 am | |
| Matthias Andree | Jan 30, 2005 6:00 am | |
| Matthias Andree | Jan 30, 2005 6:00 am | |
| Matthias Andree | Jan 30, 2005 6:00 am | |
| Anton Berezin | Jan 30, 2005 6:16 am | |
| Erik Trulsson | Jan 30, 2005 7:34 am | |
| Erik Trulsson | Jan 30, 2005 7:56 am | |
| Sven Willenberger | Jan 30, 2005 8:13 am | |
| Chris Doherty | Jan 30, 2005 8:56 am | |
| Kris Kennaway | Jan 30, 2005 12:17 pm | |
| Doug Hardie | Jan 30, 2005 12:41 pm | |
| Parv | Jan 30, 2005 3:45 pm | |
| Kevin Oberman | Jan 30, 2005 5:19 pm | |
| Jack L. Stone | Jan 31, 2005 6:52 am | |
| Jared Earle | Jan 31, 2005 8:10 am | |
| Parv | Jan 31, 2005 6:17 pm | |
| Christian Weisgerber | Feb 3, 2005 11:07 am | |
| Dan Nelson | Feb 3, 2005 11:36 am | |
| Charles Swiger | Feb 3, 2005 12:33 pm | |
| Christian Weisgerber | Feb 3, 2005 12:55 pm | |
| Charles Swiger | Feb 3, 2005 1:47 pm |
| Subject: | [HEADS UP] perl symlinks in /usr/bin will be gone | |
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| From: | Lars Erik Gullerud (ler...@nolink.net) | |
| Date: | Jan 29, 2005 8:26:26 pm | |
| List: | org.freebsd.freebsd-stable | |
On Sat, 29 Jan 2005, Anton Berezin wrote:
Unless I hear too many cries "don't do that" (with justification), I plan to not create any perl symlinks in /usr/bin in the forthcoming upgrade of both lang/perl5.8 (to 5.8.6) and lang/perl5 (to 5.6.2). This will ONLY be true for FreeBSD 5.X and FreeBSD CURRENT; the existing pollution of /usr/bin will still be performed for older versions of FreeBSD, if requested via use.perl script.
In practical terms this will mean a one-time sweep of your scripts in order to convert them, in a typical case, from #! /usr/bin/perl to #! /usr/local/bin/perl.
No, in practical terms this does not mean a one-time sweep at all. It means we now have to manually create this symlink on all machines instead. There is simply no realistic way to change all scripts to use /usr/local/bin/perl (and keep finding/replacing this for all new scripts users may install - they usually don't come from the ports collection) - while this may be doable on a single user's local workstation, it is just not doable in places like an ISP environment, and no doubt many others.
So then we'll be forced to create this symlink manually anyway, on all servers, probably for all eternity, and face the screaming users everytime someone forgets it on one. It also goes against what every other platform does with regards to perl, and it is IMHO a big POLA violation.
So please - "don't do that". :(
/leg