Am Mittwoch, 21. November 2018 schrieb Hendrik Boom: > On Mon, Nov 19, 2018 at 05:19:03PM +0100, Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult > wrote: > > > > just for your amusement ... > > > > > > -------- Forwarded Message -------- > > Subject: Our build system may be broken: /bin vs /usr/bin > > Resent-Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2018 15:01:46 +0000 (UTC) > > Resent-From: debian-de...@lists.debian.org > > Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2018 08:55:31 -0600 > > From: Dirk Eddelbuettel <e...@debian.org> > > To: Debian Developers <debian-de...@lists.debian.org> > > CC: Dirk Eddelbuettel <e...@debian.org> > > > > > > > > tl;dr: We may be messing up /bin and /usr/bin on some platforms > > They have already started making busy-work for us. > > > > > > > Sorry for the alarming headline but #913982 was filed, indepedently > > corrobated and simultaneously discovered by upstream. > > > > GNU R has long been relying on sed, tar, bzip2, ... and many more base > > tools. No issues there. Generally looked for in /bin and found there. > > > > Starting with binary rebuild r-base_3.5.1-1+b2 however, /usr/bin/* path > > crept > > in while the binaries where still in the wrong place. It looked like a > > one-off so I uploaded 3.5.1-2 which built fine for me on amd64 ...but > > apparently is already borked again on i386. > > I read the discussion at > https://www.mail-archive.com/debian-bugs-dist@lists.debian.org/msg1642443.html > and it looks as if they fixed the discrepancy at version 3.5.1-2. > Which means if we want to keep sed in /bin instead of /usr/bin we may > have to patch both packages sed and r-base. > > Or maybe add a symblic link to make sed accessible from /usr/bin instead > of just /bin.
Why would anybody hardcode the link to sed in the first place? Isn't that what $PATH is all about? Nik > > -- hendrik > _______________________________________________ > Dng mailing list > Dng@lists.dyne.org > https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng > -- Please do not email me anything that you are not comfortable also sharing with the NSA, CIA ... _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
