[packages/shadow] - shadow puts everything into /bin and /sbin - that's ok but provide symlinks for old (pwdutils) loc

[Jakub Bogusz]

On Tue, Jan 07, 2020 at 01:36:44PM +0100, arekm wrote:
> commit 2bb4da0ffecbbc08e6e25336b3e1e012b7cd61a5
> Author: Arkadiusz Miśkiewicz <arekm at maven.pl>
> Date:   Tue Jan 7 13:36:34 2020 +0100
> 
>     - shadow puts everything into /bin and /sbin - that's ok but provide symlinks for old (pwdutils) locations
[...]
> +# compatibility with old locations (and pwdutils)
> +install -d $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_bindir}
> +for f in chage chfn chsh expiry faillog gpasswd newgrp newgidmap passwd newuidmap sg; do
> +  ln -s /bin/${f} $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_bindir}/${f}
> +done
> +install -d $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_sbindir}
> +for f in chgpasswd chpasswd groupadd groupdel groupmems groupmod grpck grpconv grpunconv logoutd newusers pwck pwconv pwunconv useradd userdel usermod vigr vipw; do
> +  ln -s /sbin/${f} $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_sbindir}/${f}
> +done
> +
[...]
> +%attr(4755,root,root) /bin/chfn
>  %attr(4755,root,root) %{_bindir}/chfn
> +%attr(4755,root,root) /bin/chsh
>  %attr(4755,root,root) %{_bindir}/chsh
> +%attr(4755,root,root) /bin/expiry
>  %attr(4755,root,root) %{_bindir}/expiry
> +%attr(4755,root,root) /bin/gpasswd
>  %attr(4755,root,root) %{_bindir}/gpasswd
> +%attr(4755,root,root) /bin/passwd
>  %attr(4755,root,root) %{_bindir}/passwd
> +%attr(4755,root,root) /bin/chage
>  %attr(4755,root,root) %{_bindir}/chage
> +%attr(755,root,root) /bin/faillog
>  %attr(755,root,root) %{_bindir}/faillog
> +%attr(4755,root,root) /bin/newgrp
>  %attr(4755,root,root) %{_bindir}/newgrp
> +%attr(755,root,root) /bin/sg
>  %attr(755,root,root) %{_bindir}/sg
> +%attr(755,root,root) /sbin/chgpasswd
>  %attr(755,root,root) %{_sbindir}/chgpasswd
> +%attr(755,root,root) /sbin/chpasswd
>  %attr(755,root,root) %{_sbindir}/chpasswd
> +%attr(755,root,root) /sbin/groupadd
>  %attr(755,root,root) %{_sbindir}/groupadd
> +%attr(755,root,root) /sbin/groupdel
>  %attr(755,root,root) %{_sbindir}/groupdel
> +%attr(755,root,root) /sbin/groupmems
>  %attr(755,root,root) %{_sbindir}/groupmems
> +%attr(755,root,root) /sbin/groupmod
>  %attr(755,root,root) %{_sbindir}/groupmod
[...]

Uhhh, please, no.
Either go traditional way and distribute binaries over directories (like
in coreutils), or maybe it's time to go merged-/usr distro-wide?

Are there still any profits from using local / with network or host shared /usr?


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