Qingning Huo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I suggest dpkg-divert /usr/bin/git, and install a shell script as
> /usr/bin/git, which will invoke either program depending on a certain
> environment variable[1] or a configuration file. It is possible to achieve
> the following objectives.
>
> (1) Installing cogito will not change the meaning of /usr/bin/git by
> default;
>
> (2) System admin can decide a default preference of /usr/bin/git,
> through e.g. /etc/git.rc;
>
> (3) Each user can choose her/his own preference by e.g. ~/.gitrc;
>
> (4) cogito on Debian works the same as on other systems.
This sounds like a great suggestion, thank you very much.
In this thought experiment, the cogito package would do this:
1. Install its git as /usr/bin/git.scm (or something).
2. Divert GNU Interactive Tools' /usr/bin/git to /usr/bin/git.shell
(or something).
3. Install something like this as /usr/bin/git (written in the
mailer, not tested):
#!/bin/sh
GIT=/usr/bin/git.scm
[ -f /etc/git-selector ] && source /etc/git-selector
[ -f $HOME/.git-selector ] && source $HOME/.git-selector
exec $GIT
4. Typical /etc/git-selector, set via debconf on install of cogito:
#GIT=/usr/bin/git.scm
GIT=/usr/bin/git.shell
5. Typical $HOME/.git-selector, set by user:
GIT=/usr/bin/git.scm
#GIT=/usr/bin/git.shell
Wow, this seems like a really nice save -- I especially like objective 4.
I changed the names git.rc and .gitrc, as those might reasonably be
taken by the upstream package(s).
Does this solution seem acceptable to everyone?
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Sebastian Kuzminsky
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