On Thu, 2017-06-22 at 17:15 +0200, Petr Šabata 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]; I just took a quick look at the systemtap package. It has: # On RHEL[45], /bin/mktemp comes from the 'mktemp' package. On newer # distributions, /bin/mktemp comes from the 'coreutils' package. To # avoid a specific RHEL[45] Requires, we'll do a file-based require. Requires: /bin/mktemp On RHEL5 the mktemp package only provides a /bin/mktemp and no /usr/bin/mktemp. Now RHEL5 is fairly old and this Requires can be changed for Fedora of course. But it might be that there are other packages that share a spec file between RHEL and Fedora and have a /bin instead of /usr/bin Requires for this reason. Cheers, Mark > [1] https://paste.fedoraproject.org/paste/v-SDa5byzWT93OKPWZ~XKQ/ _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
