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: | Fred Condo (fr...@tincture.us) | |
| Date: | Jan 29, 2005 4:41:58 pm | |
| List: | org.freebsd.freebsd-stable | |
On Jan 29, 2005, at 12:58 PM, Kris Kennaway wrote:
On Sat, Jan 29, 2005 at 09:24:25PM +0100, 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.
CORRECT perl-dependant ports should not be affected.
In order to keep pkg-install simple, no old symlink chasing and removal will be done, although the detailed instructions will be posted in ports/UPDATING and in pkg-message for the ports.
BTW, this goes beyond what I was asking for, which was just "remove the dangling symlinks when the package is deinstalled [because they are now nonfunctional]"
It goes beyond that, and it should not. As others have stated, this breaks too much for very little benefit. It would be better to implement exactly what Kris suggested.