On 2012.03.14. 22:10, Adrian Chadd wrote:
So you could intall gnusort, bsdsort, and then some config file would
determine which was used.
'sort' would then be a symlink to said magic program, that'd look at
its argv[0], look at the contents of that file, and exec() the right
one.
I prefer simpli
On 2012.03.14. 19:01, Mark Felder wrote:
Would it be appropriate to perhaps have a port option to
OVERWRITE_BASE and then people could just install that port, build
world and kernel... build a ton of ports. See if anything that might
possibly use it breaks?
Yes, I'm working on the update and i
On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 11:59 AM, Gabor Kovesdan wrote:
> Hi Folks,
> some time ago I started writing a BSDL sort variant from scratch since the
> OpenBSD version did not support multibyte locales and was hard to modify.
> The development was a bit stalled but recently, Oleg Moskalenko
> showed i
On 17 March 2012 17:15, Doug Barton wrote:
> Sure, and in that situation the conf file in /etc would still work just
> as well.
How will the conf file work? If there's a program like what
mailer.conf uses, sure. If the symlink is directly from sort to
/usr/bin/bsdsort, no so much.
The shared roo
On 03/17/2012 17:08, Adrian Chadd wrote:
> I can imagine a netboot'ed system where the config in /etc/alternates/
> is different for individual hosts, which have a shared root.
>
> That way you can have two netbooted hosts with a shared read-only
> rootfs, but a ramdisk /etc, with the locally conf
I can imagine a netboot'ed system where the config in /etc/alternates/
is different for individual hosts, which have a shared root.
That way you can have two netbooted hosts with a shared read-only
rootfs, but a ramdisk /etc, with the locally configured mailer,
alternates, etc.
Adrian
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On 03/17/2012 03:27, Baptiste Daroussin wrote:
> Why to symlink, this is 1/ because it concerns user/admin
> configuration,
I get that, but why is a conf file not the right answer? We could even
put the conf file in /etc if we decide that this is a
On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 09:08:52PM -0700, Doug Barton wrote:
> On 03/16/2012 18:47, Eric van Gyzen wrote:
> > On 03/16/2012 08:25 PM, Doug Barton wrote:
> >> On 03/14/2012 15:14, Jonathan Anderson wrote:
> >>> In fact, the runtime behaviour of the Debian "alternatives" system is
> >>> simpler than
On 03/16/2012 18:47, Eric van Gyzen wrote:
> On 03/16/2012 08:25 PM, Doug Barton wrote:
>> On 03/14/2012 15:14, Jonathan Anderson wrote:
>>> In fact, the runtime behaviour of the Debian "alternatives" system is
>>> simpler than that:
>>> http://segfault.in/2010/04/using-the-debian-alternatives-syst
On 03/16/2012 08:25 PM, Doug Barton wrote:
On 03/14/2012 15:14, Jonathan Anderson wrote:
In fact, the runtime behaviour of the Debian "alternatives" system is simpler
than that:
http://segfault.in/2010/04/using-the-debian-alternatives-system/
[...]
This sounds like a good solution to more tha
On 03/14/2012 15:14, Jonathan Anderson wrote:
> In fact, the runtime behaviour of the Debian "alternatives" system is simpler
> than that:
> http://segfault.in/2010/04/using-the-debian-alternatives-system/
>
> The custom Perl script with a config file is used to set up symlinks, which
> at runti
On 14 March 2012 19:32, Mark Felder wrote:
> I've seen several discussions on the bsd lists with everyone against the
> debian alternatives way. I don't know the history but I don't think it has
> much support. I assume it has to do with binaries passing through /etc via
> symlinks. I don't perso
(12/03/15 0:59), Gabor Kovesdan wrote:
Hi Folks,
some time ago I started writing a BSDL sort variant from scratch since
the OpenBSD version did not support multibyte locales and was hard to
modify. The development was a bit stalled but recently, Oleg Moskalenko
showed interest in continuing thi
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Subject: Re: CFT: new BSD-licensed sort available
On 14 Mar 2012, at 21:10, Adrian Chadd wrote:
Hi,
This makes me think of the whole debian-y way of replacing the mailer
programs using some magic alias p
On 14 Mar 2012, at 21:10, Adrian Chadd wrote:
> Hi,
>
> This makes me think of the whole debian-y way of replacing the mailer
> programs using some magic alias program.
>
> So you could intall gnusort, bsdsort, and then some config file would
> determine which was used.
>
> 'sort' would then be
On Wed, 14 Mar 2012 20:26:23 -0500, Adrian Chadd
wrote:
I must be thinking of our mailer trick then?
I know i've seen it somewhere before.
Alternatives sounds fun though?
I've seen several discussions on the bsd lists with everyone against the
debian alternatives way. I don't know the
I must be thinking of our mailer trick then?
I know i've seen it somewhere before.
Alternatives sounds fun though?
ADrian
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On 14 March 2012 08:59, Gabor Kovesdan wrote:
> some time ago I started writing a BSDL sort variant from scratch since the
> OpenBSD version did not support multibyte locales and was hard to modify.
> The development was a bit stalled but recently, Oleg Moskalenko
> showed interest in continuing
Would it be appropriate to perhaps have a port option to OVERWRITE_BASE
and then people could just install that port, build world and kernel...
build a ton of ports. See if anything that might possibly use it breaks?
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Hi Folks,
some time ago I started writing a BSDL sort variant from scratch since
the OpenBSD version did not support multibyte locales and was hard to
modify. The development was a bit stalled but recently, Oleg Moskalenko
showed interest in continuing this version
and he has made a very goo
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