Re: coreutils /bin file dependencies

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On Fri, 2017-06-23 at 09:57 +0200, Mark Wielaard wrote:
> 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.
RHEL[45] is dead, so feel free to drop this. Also polluting spec file
with conditionals (or any other things) for unsupported/unrelated
distros just create problems.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Mark
> 
> > [1] https://paste.fedoraproject.org/paste/v-SDa5byzWT93OKPWZ~XKQ/
> 
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