On Wed, Feb 15, 2023 at 11:21:02AM -0500, Steve Roggenkamp wrote:
>I attempted to use the phusion passenger package, but it would not
>properly run because it needs /usr/bin/ps for somer reason.
This happens with some other packages too, like Jenkins, a friend
pointed out to me.
>No
>problem, I will just install it. When I searched for the package
>containing it on [5]packages.debian.org, the search returns no results.
> That is, there is no package that contains /usr/hin/ps. I expected
The package is `procps`
Description: /proc file system utilities
This package provides command line and full screen utilities for browsing
procfs, a "pseudo" file system dynamically generated by the kernel to
provide information about the status of entries in its process table
(such as whether the process is running, stopped, or a "zombie").
.
It contains free, kill, pkill, pgrep, pmap, ps, pwdx, skill, slabtop,
snice, sysctl, tload, top, uptime, vmstat, w, and watch.
>it would be in coreutils, but it is not. It seems to be present on a
>another recent Debian bullseye install I did, but, again, it is
>contained in any package. It should be contained in a package in the
>base_system, but it is not. How does it get there? What if there is a
>security issue identified with the program, would it be updated? Having
>a binary program installed on a system without it being contained in a
>package seems to contravene the Debian packaging policies.
>Downstream distributions, such as Ubuntu are also affected. I
>confirmed the /usr/bin/ps is not contained in any package for 22.04
>LTS, although I have not filed a bug report.
>You can reproduce the problem easily by either searching for
>/usr/bin/ps on [6]packages.debian.org or
>$ dpkg -S $(which ps)
>On a system with /usr/bin/ps
>Thanks,
>Steve
Hope that helps,
Paul
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