On Thu, Jun 22, 2017 at 11:15 AM, Petr Šabata <contyk@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > While playing with Base Runtime container base images we noticed > that some packages couldn't be installed with coreutils-single > due to their /bin file dependencies. Unlike the original > coreutils package, coreutils-single doesn't provide the > pre-UsrMove paths. > > Now there are at least two ways to resolve this. We either > > a) change all the packages that depend on /bin/* coreutils > paths, or > b) we add the respective /bin provides to coreutils-single. > > Reading the packaging guidelines[0], I'd lean towards "fixing" > the coreutils subpackage, while the coreutils maintainers > believe we should change packages that depend on obsolete paths. > > For the record, there appear to be only 25 binary packages that > depend on /bin coreutils paths[1]; patching coreutils is also > trivial[2]. > > I'm curious as to what other people think about both this > specific case as well as how to solve these issues in general. > > Cheers, > P > I would just do option B. That way you're not breaking third-party packages, too. -- 真実はいつも一つ！/ Always, there's only one truth! _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
