From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Chris Larson" Subject: Re: [PATCH] Mention 'cpio' dependency in INSTALL Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2007 23:09:08 -0700 Message-ID: References: <3f4fd2640710011228w61ce34b5ve47ea529eed384fd@mail.gmail.com> <200710012342.37352.johan@herland.net> <3f4fd2640710021409q104a4204r522391912d5b5c8c@mail.gmail.com> <200710030142.30062.johan@herland.net> <7v1wcdjbq6.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Oct 03 08:09:22 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IcxQ9-0003sL-6f for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Wed, 03 Oct 2007 08:09:21 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751162AbXJCGJM (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Oct 2007 02:09:12 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751208AbXJCGJL (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Oct 2007 02:09:11 -0400 Received: from wr-out-0506.google.com ([64.233.184.236]:54696 "EHLO wr-out-0506.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751031AbXJCGJK (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Oct 2007 02:09:10 -0400 Received: by wr-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id 36so2357630wra for ; Tue, 02 Oct 2007 23:09:09 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references:x-google-sender-auth; bh=9xCftlsJcDbtHQf2uhiz0v27RSEO7cC615HJAYe24tA=; b=FlJDKCmogJGi3tJNgXfgWLF0fWSkoB4RMuzyOQA7Qr3WBX99PjXoYTXCuuHNrW0+6r+2Znt0y8GObuS5Pfq8ThOxwMW29Ns+7JB3JUyshqoJMftR1Qm8HR+OABJTfwMbSssEKhYVEB1ZZ6jqJIEC+x+oRUw2OThrpljS4SCLjhw= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references:x-google-sender-auth; b=FARO8uKGRiPuCqLjCm25+pZce/XaV8cX+VkEvwJ0iw/wrjds7g5UFuux3+wRXrIt4R8WGx+9G4gkrAlbwzy0tRSoab6raIekrR2yl6bdy1MrSvui7+8W9AEIwUeRkJCCp3VnybFm0hBwTwhiH6WQT0s+JjA7fPpCxZH6TC/fnZU= Received: by 10.142.240.9 with SMTP id n9mr339649wfh.1191391748332; Tue, 02 Oct 2007 23:09:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.142.81.6 with HTTP; Tue, 2 Oct 2007 23:09:08 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <7v1wcdjbq6.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> Content-Disposition: inline X-Google-Sender-Auth: bc513cf367903475 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On 10/2/07, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Johan Herland writes: > > > reveals that cpio is not mentioned anywhere in the documentation, > > nor in the requirements section of the INSTALL file. > > Thanks. > > We use many other tools that are typically found in bog-standard > UNIX environments, like sed, echo, cat, sort, etc. and we do not > list them in the INSTALL file (nor we would want to). cpio used > to be in the "bog standard" category but perhaps Linux distros > do not install it by default, so it is worth listing it there. > > Are there other commands we rely on that may not be universally > installed? I myself consider "cut" to be in the category, but > other than that I do not think of anything offhand. I'd think it might be a good idea to list any utilities used that aren't in, say, the Single Unix Specification, for example. -- Chris Larson - clarson at kergoth dot com Software Engineer - MontaVista - clarson at mvista dot com Core Developer/Architect - TSLib, BitBake, OpenEmbedded, OpenZaurus