Split coreutils?

[Arkadiusz Miskiewicz]

On Tuesday 24 June 2008, Patryk Zawadzki wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 10:26 PM, Arkadiusz Miskiewicz <arekm at maven.pl> 
wrote:
> > On Tuesday 24 June 2008, Patryk Zawadzki wrote:
> >> On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 9:37 AM, Elan Ruusamäe <glen at pld-linux.org> 
wrote:
> >> > On Tuesday 10 June 2008 01:59:04 Patryk Zawadzki wrote:
> >> >> The problem we are currently facing is that installing packages to a
> >> >> fresh system results in poldek being confused about coreutils + pam
> >> >> circular deps.
> >> >
> >> > i guess it's rather rpm being confused? the circular loops can be
> >> > broken with rpm-whiteout.spec. however i'd support package spliting
> >> > really.
> >>
> >> coreutils rel 3 now has a separate subpackage for su and runuser. Also
> >> sent to th-test for testing.
> >
> > The problem with split is that people using su to switch to root will
> > have a problem after doing simple upgrade (most people won't notice -su
> > subpackage).
>
> I don't see how that's a problem - it's a matter of installing one
> package (and not a required one - on my system no package requires
> /bin/su). I'm used to typing 'sudo su -' but then I just installed the
> subpackage and it works as expected. It's a one-time operation.

su -
poldek, do coreutils upgrade
quit
exit

and next time su - fails as this commands no longer exists.

Now you have to drive 300km to get into server console, log into root and 
install coreutils-su since at this time you will know about the split 8-)

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Arkadiusz Miśkiewicz        PLD/Linux Team
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