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Re: bashbug install mode
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Michał Górny |
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Re: bashbug install mode |
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Date: |
Mon, 28 Nov 2016 22:35:12 +0100 |
On Mon, 28 Nov 2016 13:25:12 -0800
Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu> wrote:
> On 11/27/16 1:35 AM, Michał Górny wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > While scanning our systems for executables that are installed u-w, I've
> > noticed this specific mode is used for bashbug explicitly. Is there
> > a good reason for doing that?
>
> Well, twenty years ago when the two installation modes were introduced,
> I'm pretty sure that the separate modes for installing binaries and
> scripts were recommended by the GNU coding standards.
I don't think they do that anymore. Today, the de facto recommendation
from GNU would be automake, which installs all executables 0755. Here bash
stands out as doing something possibly wrong.
--
Best regards,
Michał Górny
<http://dev.gentoo.org/~mgorny/>
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