Re: Removal of sln

2018-02-19 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Mon, Feb 19, 2018 at 11:37:09AM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote: > On 02/16/2018 10:53 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > >There are some %post scripts which still use this, notably > >ca-certificates, so that's now broken. > > What do you propose instead? Revert the removal, exposing SELinux > and

Re: Removal of sln

2018-02-19 Thread Graham Leggett
On 16 Feb 2018, at 11:53 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > I also don't think rather fundamental, useful and old tools like this > should be removed without discussion. +1. While the foundations for your house might be old, taking a sledgehammer to those foundations without

Re: Removal of sln

2018-02-19 Thread Florian Weimer
On 02/16/2018 10:53 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: There are some %post scripts which still use this, notably ca-certificates, so that's now broken. What do you propose instead? Revert the removal, exposing SELinux and other issues because some tools do not deal properly with hardlinks? Or

Re: Removal of sln

2018-02-18 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Sun, Feb 18, 2018 at 04:06:31PM +, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote: > On Sun, Feb 18, 2018 at 12:47:24PM +, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > > On Sat, Feb 17, 2018 at 04:08:09PM +, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote: > > > On Fri, Feb 16, 2018 at 09:53:35PM +, Richard W.M. Jones

Re: Removal of sln

2018-02-18 Thread Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
On Sun, Feb 18, 2018 at 12:47:24PM +, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > On Sat, Feb 17, 2018 at 04:08:09PM +, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 16, 2018 at 09:53:35PM +, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > > > sln (staticly linked ‘ln’) was removed from glibc recently: > > > > > >

Re: Removal of sln

2018-02-18 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Sat, Feb 17, 2018 at 04:08:09PM +, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote: > On Fri, Feb 16, 2018 at 09:53:35PM +, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > > sln (staticly linked ‘ln’) was removed from glibc recently: > > > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1531546 > > > > The explanation

Re: Removal of sln

2018-02-17 Thread Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
On Fri, Feb 16, 2018 at 09:53:35PM +, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > sln (staticly linked ‘ln’) was removed from glibc recently: > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1531546 > > The explanation for this was: > > "The sln program is no longer useful, so we will not ship it

Removal of sln

2018-02-16 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
sln (staticly linked ‘ln’) was removed from glibc recently: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1531546 The explanation for this was: "The sln program is no longer useful, so we will not ship it anymore." and it was removed from Rawhide 3 days later. There are some %post scripts