Kevin Kofler via devel wrote: > Aoife Moloney wrote: >> == Summary == >> The `/usr/sbin` directory becomes a symlink to `bin`, which means >> paths like `/usr/bin/foo` and `/usr/sbin/foo` point to the same place. >> `/bin` and `/sbin` are already symlinks to `/usr/bin` and `/usr/sbin`, >> so effectively `/bin/foo` and `/sbin/foo` also point to the same >> place. `/usr/sbin` will be removed from the default `$PATH`. > > I am against this because it breaks my kannolo-root-unlocker package: > https://svn.calcforge.org/viewvc/kannolo/trunk/packages/kannolo-root-unlocker/kannolo-root-unlocker.spec?revision=270&view=markup > > I do not want to patch/overwrite the binaries in /usr/bin (because it will > make the RPM verify fail, and also historically because it breaks > deltarpms, though AIUI we do not support those anymore anyway), so I put > the ones patched to accept running as root into /usr/sbin, which is > conveniently before /usr/bin in root's PATH. This change breaks that. > > If this is implemented, I will have to change the kannolo-root-unlocker to > patch the binaries in place. But people who have the old version of > kannolo- root-unlocker installed may end up with corrupt binaries, because > the scriptlets of course do not expect %{_bindir} and %{_sbindir} to be > the same or symlinks to the same. (They are different macros for a > reason.) Note that I already thought of using /usr/local/bin, in fact this was my first attempt, but that does not work because kdesu does not search in /usr/local/bin, and the KDE SIG also refused to fix that. Kevin Kofler -- _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
