Package: rinse
Version: 4.1
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
when trying essntially an examp,e, rinse fials wioth a message like this:
The package list for the distribution rocky-8 was not found.
We expected to find:
/usr/sbin/../etc/rocky-8.packages
Aborting.
I think the default path should be /etc/rinse, not /usr/sbin/../etc/, for
two reasons: the files are obviously stored in /etc/rinse, and debian
policy does not allow config files in /usr/etc (not would it allow assuming
/usr/../etc is trhe same as /etc(.
Ther problem is also not just limited to --distribution, as speciyfing
something like ../../../../etc/rinse/rocky-8 to work aorund the first
issue causes another, simiar problem when reeading rinse.conf:
The configuration file /usr/sbin/../etc/rinse.conf was not found.
Aborting.
Note also that the manpage wrongly says the default confgig file is
/etc/rinse/rinse.conf, but it is not, as specfying that path directly via
--config makes rinse find it, apparently.
I haven't foiund away to invoke rinse so far, though, even with tricks, so
it seems to be seriouslöy hosed atm.-
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 12.1
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (990, 'stable-updates'), (990, 'stable-security'), (990,
'stable'), (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'testing-debug'), (500,
'oldstable-debug'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1,
'experimental-debug'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386, x32
Kernel: Linux 6.1.41-schmorp (SMP w/24 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_USER, TAINT_WARN,
TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=en_IE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_IE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages rinse depends on:
ii cpio 2.13+dfsg-7.1
ii libterm-size-perl 0.211-1+b2
ii libwww-perl 6.68-1
ii perl 5.36.0-7
ii rpm 4.18.0+dfsg-1+b1
ii rpm2cpio 4.18.0+dfsg-1+b1
ii wget 1.21.3-1+b2
rinse recommends no packages.
rinse suggests no packages.
-- no debconf information
