On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 11:07:59PM +0200, Tom Gundersen wrote: > On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 10:49 PM, Dave Reisner <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 10:37:43PM +0200, Sébastien Luttringer wrote: > >> On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 10:22 PM, Bartłomiej Piotrowski > >> <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > Date: Tuesday, May 14, 2013 @ 22:22:08 > >> > Author: bpiotrowski > >> > Revision: 90846 > >> > > >> > upgpkg: fail2ban 0.8.8-3 > >> > > >> > - correct path to sendmail due to migration to /usr/bin > >> I see you moved exim from /usr/sbin/sendmail to /usr/bin/sendmail. > >> > >> This path is hardcoded to /usr/sbin/sendmail in _many_ sotfwares and > >> all others rely on it (ssmtp, postfix, opensmtpd, heilroom-mailx, > >> etc). > >> > >> By example, > >> # mail -s toto [email protected] > >> test > >> . > >> EOT > >> /usr/sbin/sendmail: No such file or directory > >> "/root/dead.letter" 9/210 > >> . . . message not sent. > >> > >> I think we should do this correctly and rebuild /usr/sbin/sendmail in > >> one shot, or include it in the global switch. > > > > It's only hardcoded as /usr/sbin/sendmail for mailx because that's what > > the PKGBUILD for heirloom-mailx sets it to. Other packages can be fixed > > as well. > > I'm not following. If this path is hardcoded in several packages (and > presumably in lots of custom packages/scripts), isn't this precisely > one of the cases where we should delay the move until we do the proper > usrmove and create the compat symlinks? > > Cheers, > > Tom
Expanding on that logic, why aren't we just doing this all at once?
