Bug#679128: useless (?) dichotomy: sysfs is located under /bin on kfreebsd systems, while /sbin on Linuxes

2012-07-05 Thread Yaroslav Halchenko
please let me know if you need help fixing this issue (i.e. moving installation under /sbin). some packages (e.g. statsmodels) still FTBFS due to it and imho this is the logical way to resolve it. Best regards, -- Yaroslav O. Halchenko Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Psychological and

Bug#679128: useless (?) dichotomy: sysfs is located under /bin on kfreebsd systems, while /sbin on Linuxes

2012-06-30 Thread Craig Small
On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 09:22:25PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote: What's the reason for putting it in /sbin? It's and admin program that can be used before remote filesystems are mounted. I suspect the program is in that package because the freebsd /proc emulation is a little sad, to say the

Bug#679128: useless (?) dichotomy: sysfs is located under /bin on kfreebsd systems, while /sbin on Linuxes

2012-06-29 Thread Robert Millan
2012/6/26 Craig Small csm...@debian.org: reassign 679128 freebsd-utils thankyou On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 10:43:17AM -0400, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote: is there any specific reason or could it be shipped under /sbin/ ? Ask the freebsd-utils people, after all it is their program and not mine.

Bug#679128: useless (?) dichotomy: sysfs is located under /bin on kfreebsd systems, while /sbin on Linuxes

2012-06-29 Thread Yaroslav Halchenko
On Fri, 29 Jun 2012, Robert Millan wrote: reassign 679128 freebsd-utils thankyou On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 10:43:17AM -0400, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote: is there any specific reason or could it be shipped under /sbin/ ? Ask the freebsd-utils people, after all it is their program and not

Bug#679128: useless (?) dichotomy: sysfs is located under /bin on kfreebsd systems, while /sbin on Linuxes

2012-06-28 Thread Yaroslav Halchenko
I have done some checks for what paths are used to reach sysctl The only other package assuming [^s]bin/sysctl is: http://www.onerussian.com/tmp/egrep-nosbin_sysctl.log /srv/ftp.debian.org/mirror/pool/main/f/freebsd-buildutils/freebsd-buildutils_9.0-11_kfreebsd-i386.deb:Binary file (standard

Bug#679128: useless (?) dichotomy: sysfs is located under /bin on kfreebsd systems, while /sbin on Linuxes

2012-06-26 Thread Yaroslav Halchenko
Package: procps Version: 1:3.2.8-11 Severity: important Since I have not got any feedback on http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=648061#65 I am still not sure if this difference is intended or just an omission. sysctl is shipped under /sbin on Linux-based installations but for some

Bug#679128: useless (?) dichotomy: sysfs is located under /bin on kfreebsd systems, while /sbin on Linuxes

2012-06-26 Thread Yaroslav Halchenko
On Wed, 27 Jun 2012, Craig Small wrote: is there any specific reason or could it be shipped under /sbin/ ? Ask the freebsd-utils people, after all it is their program and not mine. indeed: debian/freebsd-utils.install:debian/local/scripts/bin/sysctl/bin

Bug#679128: useless (?) dichotomy: sysfs is located under /bin on kfreebsd systems, while /sbin on Linuxes

2012-06-26 Thread Craig Small
reassign 679128 freebsd-utils thankyou On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 10:43:17AM -0400, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote: is there any specific reason or could it be shipped under /sbin/ ? Ask the freebsd-utils people, after all it is their program and not mine. I suspect the program is in that package because