Re: shells/bash port, add a knob which symlinks to /bin/bash ?

On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 02:12:45PM -0700, Craig Rodrigues wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> In the last 3 jobs that I have worked at, there have been
> a mix of Linux machines and FreeBSD machines.
> When using an NIS or LDAP environment where
> there is a single login across multiple machines, it is useful to
> have a single shell setting.
> 
> Since Linux and MacOS X have "/bin/bash" as the shell,
> in order to get the FreeBSD boxes to play in this environment,
> I have seen admins do the following on FreeBSD setups:
>    ln -s /usr/local/bin/bash /bin/bash
> 
> or
> 
>    ln /usr/local/bin/bash /bin/bash
> 
> and then make sure that /etc/shells as:
> /usr/local/bin/bash
> /bin/bash
> 
> Can we add an optional knob (turned off by default) which creates this
> symlink
> and updates /etc/shells?
> 
> This would help with interoperability of FreeBSD hosts in environments mixed
> with Linux and MacOS X.
> 

Please no, no and no!

We are fighting for a very long time to prevent the ports to pollute base.

We have added the shebangfix USES to be able to catch with up with cleanup this
properly as well as a qa test to discover it automatically.

no interpreters at all have a symlink in base but perl and this one is going to
be removed.

If you want interoperability just use /usr/bin/env bash as a shebang. Btw you
cannot get interoprability with OS-X in there because the bash they do provide
is the last GPL-2 recent bash have many incompatiblities with this old version.

regards,
Bapt