Your message dated Wed, 16 May 2007 08:58:11 +0200 (CEST)
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and subject line Bug#424208: module-init-tools: use of /usr/bin/{sort,uniq}
before /usr is mounted
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Package: module-init-tools
Version: 6.2-3
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable
S20module-init-tools calls '... | sort | uniq' but is run at a time
during bootup where /usr is not yet mounted, and sort and uniq are,
obviously, not available yet:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ # whence -p sort; whence -p uniq
/usr/bin/sort
/usr/bin/uniq
Side note: 'foo | sort -u' does the same as 'foo | sort | uniq' and
is usually much faster.
This renders the script in question unusable whenever /usr is on a
separate filesystem from /, which is usually recommended in most
*nix install guides.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
Architecture: kfreebsd-i386 (i686)
Kernel: kFreeBSD 5.4-1-486
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US.UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/mksh
Versions of packages module-init-tools depends on:
ii debconf 1.5.13 Debian configuration management sy
ii kfreebsd-image-5.4-1-486 [ 5.4-21 kernel of FreeBSD 5.4 image
ii libbsd0 0.0-1.2+r1710 BSD compatibility library - shared
ii libc0.1 2.5-7 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libfreebsd0 0.0-5 FreeBSD compatibility library - sh
module-init-tools recommends no packages.
-- debconf information excluded
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--- Begin Message ---
Why do I keep receiving bugs for a kfreebsd-i386 package which I do not
maintain?
No idea, in this case I suspect there are two different packages with
the same name. (I thought they are either the same package, or have
different names.)
Yes, module-init-tools binary package on GNU/kFreeBSD comes from freebsd-utils
source package. Unfortunately GNU/kFreeBSD is not in the official archive,
we are simply ignored by ftp-masters, despite i.e.
http://unstable.buildd.net/buildd/kfreebsd-i386_stats.
So the freebsd-utils source package is not included as official debian
source package. Sorry for the inconvenience.
Petr
P.S.
The fix for this bug is pending.
http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/glibc-bsd/?rev=1923&sc=1
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