svn commit: r314693 - head/usr.sbin/rmt

[Rodney W. Grimes]

Moved thread to -hackers for a quick discussion.

> On Sun, Mar 05, 2017 at 05:19:28AM -0800, Rodney W. Grimes wrote:
> > -- Start of PGP signed section.
> > > On Sun, Mar 05, 2017 at 04:09:18AM +0000, Rodney W. Grimes wrote:
> > > > Author: rgrimes
> > > > Date: Sun Mar  5 04:09:18 2017
> > > > New Revision: 314693
> > > > URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/314693
> > > > 
> > > > Log:
> > > >   Change /etc/rmt symlink from absolute to relative path,
> > > >   correcting the mistake made in r6499
> > > >   
> > > >   Approved by:	grehan
> > > >   MFC after:	1 week
> > > > 
> > > > Modified:
> > > >   head/usr.sbin/rmt/Makefile
> > > > 
> > > > Modified: head/usr.sbin/rmt/Makefile
> > > > ==============================================================================
> > > > --- head/usr.sbin/rmt/Makefile	Sun Mar  5 04:02:47 2017	(r314692)
> > > > +++ head/usr.sbin/rmt/Makefile	Sun Mar  5 04:09:18 2017	(r314693)
> > > > @@ -7,6 +7,6 @@ MAN=	rmt.8
> > > >  # called from /usr/src/etc/Makefile
> > > >  etc-rmt:
> > > >  	rm -f ${DESTDIR}/etc/rmt
> > > > -	ln -s ${BINDIR}/rmt ${DESTDIR}/etc/rmt
> > > > +	ln -s ..${BINDIR}/rmt ${DESTDIR}/etc/rmt
> > > 
> > > I think this should be ${INSTALL_RSYMLINK} ${BINDIR}/rmt ${DESTDIR}/etc/rmt
> > 
> > find /usr/src | xargs grep INSTALL_RSYM
> > (no results)
> > 
> > Sorry, no prior work does this, perhaps once I get done sweeping the
> > absolutes out of the tree (about 10 or 15 IIRC) a pass can be made to
> > sweep all ln -s out and propage this internal bsd.lib.mk function out
> > to the rest of the source tree?
> 
> There is also no Makefiles that do ls -sf directly beside that one.
Unless I have missed a commit:
./crypto/openssh/contrib/cygwin/Makefile:       cd $(DESTDIR)$(mandir)/man1 && ln -s ssh.1.gz slogin.1.gz
./usr.sbin/sendmail/Makefile:   ln -sf ${.ALLSRC} ${.TARGET}
./usr.sbin/rmt/Makefile:        ln -s ${BINDIR}/rmt ${DESTDIR}/etc/rmt
...
A summary is there are 50 instances of ln -sf,  28 other variants of ln -s,
and 5 ln -fs.  I did not search for other permutaions of ln and s f options.


> INSTALL_RSYMLINK has exactly be done to be use everywhere it is needed. (I wrote
> it for that exact reason :))

Wonderful!!  I'll investigate a sweep to finish implementing this tree wide
in my spare time....  I notice that SYMLINKS= is hard coded to use
INSTALL_SYMLINKS so that can't be used to fix some of these.
How would you propose I proceed in that area??

And investigation into using INSTALL_RSYMLINK in SYMLINKS= should be done,
I can not think of a reason when you DONT  want a relative link installed,
but I may be missing some new odd use for symlinks by the FreeBSD base
system.
> > 
> > find /usr/share/mk/ | xargs grep INSTALL_RSYM
> > /usr/share/mk/bsd.own.mk:INSTALL_RSYMLINK?=     ${INSTALL} ${RSYMLINK}
> > /usr/share/mk/bsd.lib.mk:       ${INSTALL_RSYMLINK} ${TAG_ARGS:D${TAG_ARGS},development} ${SHLIB_NAME} ${DESTDIR}${_LIBDIR}/${SHLIB_LINK}
> > /usr/share/mk/bsd.lib.mk:       ${INSTALL_RSYMLINK} ${TAG_ARGS} ${DESTDIR}${_SHLIBDIR}/${SHLIB_NAME} \
> > /usr/share/mk/bsd.lib.mk:       ${INSTALL_RSYMLINK} ${TAG_ARGS:D${TAG_ARGS},development} ${DESTDIR}${_SHLIBDIR}/${SHLIB_NAME} \
> > /usr/share/mk/bsd.lib.mk:       ${INSTALL_RSYMLINK} ${TAG_ARGS} ${DESTDIR}${_SHLIBDIR}/${SHLIB_NAME} \
> > 
> > This is called from within bsd.lib.mk only, do we want to use this for
> > all symbolics links in the source tree?  If so I would of though the
> > person adding this functionality to the .mk files would of made
> > a tree sweeping looking for that and making those changes as well.
> 
> When I did it only bsd.lib.mk was using it iirc

And that appears to still be the case.

> > > The rm -f before can then be removed, the symlink will be relative and the
> > > METALOG will be respected 
> > 
> > METALOG?  The only documentation I can find on this seems to be part of
> > src/tootls/tools/makeroot.8.
> > 
> > It appears that something in Makefile.inc uses it and there are references
> > to it in etc/Makefile.
> > 
> > Where is this METALOG documented?  
> 
> It is really badly documented and should be :( it is a mtree file that is
> generated when built is done via -DNO_ROOT for the purpose of being able to
> generate disk with makefs as a user
> 
> I have reused it for packaging base.
> 
> This was designed IIRC by adrian and brooks iirc.
> 
> Embedded people relies a lot on it.
> Everything not going though the install(1) command is not tracked that is why
> this is an issue.

I guess then that these 83 things I have found are not so important to them?

Lets take this to -hackers, discuss it where it should be, and get it fixed.

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Rod Grimes                                                 rgrimes at freebsd.org