#1951: gzip-1.3.11
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Reporter: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Owner: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Type: enhancement | Status: assigned
Priority: normal | Milestone: 6.3
Component: Book | Version: SVN
Severity: normal | Resolution:
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Comment (by [EMAIL PROTECTED]):
Because of the change of some utilities from hardlinks to actual binaries
as detailed above, our instructions need to change:
{{{
mv -v /usr/bin/gzip /bin
rm -v /usr/bin/{gunzip,zcat}
ln -sv gzip /bin/gunzip
ln -sv gzip /bin/zcat
ln -sv gzip /bin/compress
ln -sv gunzip /bin/uncompress
}}}
now simply becomes
{{{
mv -v /usr/bin/{gunzip,gzip,zcat} /bin # to achieve FHS binary location
compliance
}}}
Note that, although the binaries above are placed in the /bin directory as
specified by the FHS, that spec actually states that gunzip and zcat
should be symlinks or hardlinks to gzip. As the GNU standards and FHS
conflict with each other on this point, we'll stick with upstream's wishes
and they have reported the problem with the FHS maintainers as outlined at
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gzip/2007-02/msg00011.html.
The gzip -> compress link is incorrect as detailed in
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gzip/2007-02/msg00009.html so has
been removed.
I also couldn't see a reason for uncompress to be in /bin (it's not in
FHS, LSB or our bootscripts) so it's going to stay in /usr/bin.
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