On Wednesday 27 January 2010 14:51:15 Maxim Burgerhout wrote: > Hi Michal, > > A few thoughts on this: > > - on RHEL boxes, the dependency on libpci does not exist and lspci is > in /sbin. Therefore, on RHEL boxes, lspci will still work with a > broken /usr partition. I haven't heard of anyone absolutely needing > lspci on a system with a broken /usr partition, but it *is* possible > to use it. Moving it also breaks a pretty long tradition, but that > should matter too much. I actually prefer lspci to be in my path as a > normal user. well, on RHEL5 there is no pciutils-libs, so it does not depend on any library in /usr/lib, but it depends at least on /usr/share/hwdata/pci.ids and without it lspci is not that useful > > - it would be consistent if lsusb would make the same move to > /usr/sbin, if lspci goes that way. on the other hand lsusb requires library from /usr/lib (on RHEL5) so it is in /sbin but won't work without mounted /usr (and there are also usb.ids) > > - I noticed Debian puts lspci in /usr/bin. I'm curious about the > reason lspci is to remain in a sbin directory if it's being moved > anyway. good question > I haven't been involved in Fedora for that long, but I'd like to > participate in this discussion a bit, if that's ok :-) > > Regards, > > Maxim Burgerhout > maxim@xxxxxxxxx > ---------------- > GPG Fingerprint > EB11 5E56 E648 9D99 E8EF 05FB C513 6FD4 1302 B48A > > On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 14:17, Michal Hlavinka <mhlavink@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > in Fedora we have pciutils binaries (lspci and setpci) in /sbin, both of > > them use pciutils-libs (/usr/lib/...) and afaik this is how it works for > > "ages". I'd like to move them from /sbin to /usr/sbin to have them with > > the same prefix as library has. Do you think it can break anything? > > > > A few facts: > > 1)library is already in /usr/lib and lspci/setpci won't work without it > > 2)pci.ids (lives in hwdata package) is in /usr/share/hwdata > > 3)yum remove pciutils will remove only system-config-{firewall,network} > > as dependencies > > > > Do you think moving this is a bad idea? I think it should not break > > anything, only problem can be with separate /usr partition but because > > of library in /usr it would be already broken and I've not seen any > > complain about it ever. > > > > If there are no complains, I'll move it next week (in rawhide only). > > > > Cheers, > > Michal Hlavinka > > > > -- > > devel mailing list > > devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel