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# 1.49 05-Aug-2025 charlotte

install.1: Grammar fixups


Revision tags: perseant-exfatfs-base-20250801 netbsd-11-base perseant-exfatfs-base-20240630 perseant-exfatfs-base
# 1.48 10-May-2024 wiz

nstall(1): add support for -v

Reviewed by rillig@ and thorpej@, thanks!


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# 1.47 08-Apr-2012 wiz

Remove unnecessary Bk/Ek pairs from SYNOPSIS.
No effective change except where I used the opportunity to sort options
and/or option descriptions.


# 1.46 22-Mar-2012 wiz

Fix whitespace nits. Suggested by Bug Hunting.


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# 1.45 14-May-2010 joerg

branches: 1.45.6;
Reorder sections to canonical order. Use .Ex -std.


Revision tags: matt-premerge-20091211 jym-xensuspend-nbase jym-xensuspend-base
# 1.44 01-May-2009 wiz

Bump date for previous.


# 1.43 01-May-2009 apb

Add support for writing sha256, sha384, and sha512 digests to
a metalog. mtree(8) has supported these for a long time.


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# 1.42 29-Jan-2004 wiz

branches: 1.42.42;
Drop trailing space.


# 1.41 29-Jan-2004 lukem

Implement -h {none,md5,rmd160,sha1} to determine the appropriate hash
(digest) when copying a file to store in the -M METALOG.


# 1.40 27-Jan-2004 lukem

now that -c is the default, use "copy" instead of "move"


# 1.39 29-Dec-2003 simonb

Make "copy the file" (the -c option) the default behaviour. The -c option
is kept for backwards compatibility but now has no effect.

Patch from Bruce Nourish in PR bin/23874, with some minor changes by me.


# 1.38 07-Aug-2003 agc

Move UCB-licensed code from 4-clause to 3-clause licence.

Patches provided by Joel Baker in PR 22365, verified by myself.


# 1.37 24-May-2003 jmmv

Use ; instead of , in a sentence (and fix case of next word).


# 1.36 25-Feb-2003 wiz

.Nm does not need a dummy argument ("") before punctuation or
for correct formatting of the SYNOPSIS any longer.


Revision tags: fvdl_fs64_base
# 1.35 23-Dec-2002 wiz

Add a missing word.


# 1.34 22-Dec-2002 lukem

Implement '-D destdir'; if '-M metalog' is being used, remove a
leading `destdir' from the file name logged to the metalog.
The -D option has no effect on where the actual files are installed.


# 1.33 19-Dec-2002 wiz

Drop trailing whitespace.


# 1.32 19-Dec-2002 lukem

Add '-N dbdir', to specify that user & group lookups are to be done from
dbdir/master.passwd and dbdir/group, using simple text file parsing
routines from ../../usr.sbin/mtree/getid.c.


# 1.31 30-Sep-2002 grant

New sentence, new line.


Revision tags: netbsd-1-6-PATCH002-RELEASE netbsd-1-6-PATCH002 netbsd-1-6-PATCH002-RC4 netbsd-1-6-PATCH002-RC3 netbsd-1-6-PATCH002-RC2 netbsd-1-6-PATCH002-RC1 netbsd-1-6-PATCH001 netbsd-1-6-PATCH001-RELEASE netbsd-1-6-PATCH001-RC3 netbsd-1-6-PATCH001-RC2 netbsd-1-6-PATCH001-RC1 netbsd-1-6-RELEASE netbsd-1-6-RC3 netbsd-1-6-RC2 netbsd-1-6-RC1 netbsd-1-6-base
# 1.30 19-Mar-2002 lukem

- Add "-a afterinstallcommand", which runs "sh -c afterinstallcmd target"
after target has been installed and possibly stripped with -s, but
before ownership, permissions or timestamps are set, and before
renaming (with -r) occurs. Per discussion with simonb.
- When metalogging hardlinks, log the mode of the existing target
(rather than the default 0755), and ignore owner/group/fflags.
- Improve man page description of various options to include argument name.
- Clean up usage() to use getprogname(), etc.


# 1.29 08-Feb-2002 ross

Generate <>& symbolically. I'm avoiding .../dist/... directories for now.


# 1.28 08-Dec-2001 wiz

Punctuation nit.


# 1.27 01-Dec-2001 wiz

Whitespace cleanup.


# 1.26 25-Oct-2001 lukem

Add '-T tags', to specify mtree(8) tags to be written out to the '-M metalog'
for the current entry. Concept suggested by Perry Metzger.


# 1.25 11-Oct-2001 lukem

- Implement "-M log", which appends the metadata associated with the
installed file or directory to `log'. This is primarily designed
to be used in conjunction with -U, but that's not mandatory.
Provide metadata_log() to do the hard work. The log file is opened
for append at the start, and flock(LOCK_EX) is used to prevent
interleaved output (from multiple concurrent install(8) operations).
- Improve parsing of owner and groups (e.g., strtoul() instead of atoi()),
and don't rely upon uid==-1 to indicate "no owner"; use a flag instead.
- Make fileflags a global variable; uid, gid, and mode are, so lets be
consistent...
- Improve -U (unpriv); work on file flags as well, and only try to change
the file flags after the temporary file is renamed (since certain flags
will prevent the rename from working).


# 1.24 15-Jun-2001 kleink

The -r flag is applicable to the file1 -> file2 case, too.


# 1.23 27-Dec-2000 jlam

Change
"program used to trip installed binaries"
to
"program used to strip installed binaries"


# 1.22 04-Sep-2000 kleink

For commands and utilities, use EXIT STATUS rather than RETURN VALUES or
DIAGNOSTICS as appropriate (and documented in mdoc(7)).


# 1.21 27-Jul-2000 cgd

clean up documentation of STRIP envioronment var.


Revision tags: netbsd-1-5-PATCH003 netbsd-1-5-PATCH002 netbsd-1-5-PATCH001 netbsd-1-5-RELEASE netbsd-1-5-BETA2 netbsd-1-5-BETA netbsd-1-5-ALPHA2 netbsd-1-5-base minoura-xpg4dl-base
# 1.20 22-Mar-2000 garbled

Make the STRIP env var a little more obvious in the documentation, and
clean up the bottom of this manpage just a tad.


Revision tags: wrstuden-devbsize-19991221 wrstuden-devbsize-base comdex-fall-1999-base
# 1.19 16-Aug-1999 simonb

Spell "privilege" correctly (correct spelling from Jonathan Stone).


# 1.18 01-Aug-1999 sommerfeld

Add `-U' flag (for "unprivileged"). Currently just skips the
chown/chgrp stages which would otherwise blow out if not running as
root. A future version may log the owner/group to allow correction by
a later privileged cleanup pass.

Just warn about madvise failure; it's not something to blow up about.

Document new option, and clean up option grouping for -d (install
directory) option.


Revision tags: netbsd-1-4-PATCH003 netbsd-1-4-PATCH002 netbsd-1-4-PATCH001 netbsd-1-4-RELEASE netbsd-1-4-base
# 1.17 22-Mar-1999 garbled

More and more .Os cleanups. .Os is defined in the tmac.doc-common file,
so we shouldn't override it with versions in the manpages. Many more to
come.


# 1.16 07-Mar-1999 mycroft

Clean up SYNOPSIS formatting.


# 1.15 04-Feb-1999 christos

PR/2936: Brian C. Grayson: Avoid truncating precious files when installing
and the filesystem is full. Added -r flag to install, which installs on
a temporary file and then renames to the final destination.


# 1.14 26-Jan-1999 hubertf

enable numbered backups via -B.old%02d


# 1.13 25-Jan-1999 hubertf

Add a -b(ackup) flag to move any existing file(s) aside by renaming
them to file.old instead of simply deleting them. A different backup
suffix may be chosen with the -B option's argument.


# 1.12 08-Oct-1998 wsanchez

Add new option -S, which is like -s, but takes a string of options to pass to strip,
rather than "-s". For example:
install -S "-i -s symbolfile" foo /usr/bin/foo
Invokes:
/bin/sh -c "strip -i -s /usr/bin/foo"
This is needed, because we need different strip options for dynamic libraries and
Mach-O bundles than for executables; our strip supports more directed stripping.
/bin/sh is used in this case, to parse the arguments.

Don't bother mmap()ing files of zero length. Was a workaround for a bug in our mmap(),
which didn't get along with such files, but makes sense anyway.


# 1.11 28-Sep-1998 christos

add -p flag, similar to cp(1)


Revision tags: netbsd-1-3-PATCH003 netbsd-1-3-PATCH003-CANDIDATE2 netbsd-1-3-PATCH003-CANDIDATE1 netbsd-1-3-PATCH003-CANDIDATE0 netbsd-1-3-PATCH002 netbsd-1-3-PATCH001 netbsd-1-3-RELEASE netbsd-1-3-BETA netbsd-1-3-base
# 1.10 20-Oct-1997 lukem

getopt returns -1 not EOF, fix .Nm


# 1.9 19-Oct-1997 mrg

WARNSify; deprecate register; clean up .Nm


# 1.8 17-Apr-1997 thorpej

Allow the environment variable $STRIP to override _PATH_STRIP for
`-s', helping out cross-compiling.


# 1.7 03-Apr-1997 christos

PR/3445: NAKAJIMA Yoshihiro: Typo fix


# 1.6 16-Mar-1997 christos

Add support for installing hard and symbolic links via the [-l harms] flag.


# 1.5 08-Mar-1997 mouse

alternate -> alternative, per PR 2643


Revision tags: netbsd-1-2-PATCH001 netbsd-1-2-RELEASE netbsd-1-2-BETA netbsd-1-2-base netbsd-1-1-PATCH001 netbsd-1-1-RELEASE netbsd-1-1-base
# 1.4 14-Nov-1994 jtc

Merged with 4.4lite.
Changed to conform to NetBSD's new RCS Id convention.
Changed to use err(),errx(),warn(),warnx().


Revision tags: netbsd-1-0-PATCH06 netbsd-1-0-PATCH05 netbsd-1-0-PATCH04 netbsd-1-0-PATCH03 netbsd-1-0-PATCH02 netbsd-1-0-PATCH1 netbsd-1-0-PATCH0 netbsd-1-0-RELEASE netbsd-1-0-base
# 1.3 01-Aug-1993 mycroft

Add RCS indentifiers.


Revision tags: netbsd-0-9-RELEASE netbsd-0-9-BETA netbsd-0-9-ALPHA2 netbsd-0-9-ALPHA netbsd-0-9-base
# 1.2 11-Jun-1993 jtc

Added -d option to install


# 1.1 21-Mar-1993 cgd

branches: 1.1.1;
Initial revision