svn commit: r335829 - user/cperciva/panicmail

[Warner Losh]

On Mon, Jul 2, 2018 at 10:32 AM, Rodney W. Grimes <
freebsd at pdx.rh.cn85.dnsmgr.net> wrote:

> [ Charset UTF-8 unsupported, converting... ]
> > On 6/30/18 5:07 PM, Colin Percival wrote:
> > > Author: cperciva
> > > Date: Sun Jul  1 00:07:41 2018
> > > New Revision: 335829
> > > URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/335829
> > >
> > > Log:
> > >   Add /usr/local/bin to $PATH so that panicmail can use gdb from ports.
> > >
> > >   Submitted by:     sbruno
> >
> > If gdb from ports isn't installed, the old gdb will be present in
> /usr/libexec
> > if it isn't present in /usr/bin.  At some point /usr/libexec/gdb might
> go away,
> > but it is present there for now.  The crashinfo script prefers gdb from
> > /usr/local/bin and falls back to /usr/libexec or /usr/bin.
>
> Um, one is makeing an assumption even using /usr/local, our ports/pacakge
> system has allowed this to be some other place for over 2 decades.  At
> one point all of base was irreadicated of /usr/local references, it is
> a mistake to be putting any back.
>

While that may be a matter for debate (about a year or two before you came
back we had a long discussions and started putting things back because it
played better with, for example, people moving back and forth with Linux
systems), it's not relevant here: the commit path started with
user/cperciva.

Warner