Subject: Re: [justin@bbnow.net: Re: bash]
To: Jeremy C. Reed <reed@reedmedia.net>
From: Frederick Bruckman <fb@enteract.com>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 03/27/2001 19:50:50
On Tue, 27 Mar 2001, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:

> On Tue, 27 Mar 2001, Justin Heath wrote:
>
> > > -r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  396420 Nov 16 20:36 /bin/ksh
>
> > I can see that. But I do not see it in pkgsrc. Does anyone know why?
>
> ksh is a part of the base NetBSD installation. The pkgsrc tree is
> primarily for "contributed" (and/or superfluous) software. I am sure no
> one will object if you packaged a different Korn shell and submitted it to
> the pkgsrc collection. (In fact, I believe some people are working on
> packaging the AT&T Korn shell.)

I've downloaded it, but I can't even figure out the build system. It
seems like essential pieces are missing for the "don't-have-dmake" build.


Frederick