On 2/9/07, LFS Trac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> #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:
> Keywords: |
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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:
>
FYI: (would update trac ticket direct, but haven't the spare time to
resiter username etc)
The change to "actual binaries" are really just shell script wrappers
- and they all add the following to the start of each script
PATH="${GZIP_BINDIR-'/usr/bin'}:$PATH"; export PATH
and then call gzip with the appropriate command line options. since we
pass prefix=/usr, the make install portion adds the /usr/bin, even
though we then move gzip to /bin.
Because /bin is likely to still be in the path this won't *break*
anything, but should be fixed anyway, if only to prevent unexpected
behaviour is someone places a malicious gzip in the /usr/bin directory
- a sed on the Makefile perhaps?
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