[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 05:58:46PM +0100, Arkadiusz Miśkiewicz via pld-devel-en wrote:
> On 07/01/2020 17:06, Jakub Bogusz wrote:
> > 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(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.
> 
> It's ugly but I don't see any other solution that would work.
> 
> > Either go traditional way and distribute binaries over directories (like
> > in coreutils),
> 
> To goal is not to diverge from upstream.

Upstream installs everything to prefix given to configure.
Or /bin + /sbin, if it's told so to %configure in spec.

> 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?
> 
> Does it matter for this case?

Debian moved to merged /usr too, in such case both paths work regardless
of actual install paths.



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