Ansgar wrote: > > On systems using sysvinit and not yet UsrMerged this snags a > > problem in the sysvinit init script. I know and understand that > > this is not a combination that you or Debian is officially > > supporting. But it would help out interoperability if a one line > > fix were applied and your kindness would be appreciated. > > This approach does not scale: it would require maintainers to continue > to support split-usr and it will not work very well for shell > interpreter lines like "#! /bin/bash" when the basy binary gets > installed to /usr/bin/bash.
That is a straw man argument fallacy as you are trying to refute something that was not in the original request. I have not asked for adding in a hard coded path. I am asking to have a hard coded path removed. That's just good programming practice and should be valid on any system. It just happens to be in a shell script. There was no request to change anything about script #! interpreters. > So to me it seems pretty useless to fix singular instances of this > problem. I tried to be as clear on the issue as possible that while I understood that it was not a supported configuration that it would be of a help if the removal of the hard coded path could occur. The removal of five characters from one line of the file. It is a small thing but it would help out. Perhaps for the next time the package has a normal release? > It would probably be better for your distribution to fix this. Please > file a bug with them. > > > -- System Information: > > Debian Release: trixie/sid > > APT prefers unstable > > APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing') > > Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) > > You said elsewhere that this was a bug coming from using a different > distribution. Please talk to them so they make sure the system > information says so when people are using it. No. I said this was on Debian systems without systemd and that have not been UsrMerged. I said that I realized this is not a supported configuration. I am a long time user of Debian and have quite a few variously hacked installations. Debian used to have the tag line that it was The Universial Operating System. We would joke that it would run on toasters. It runs on the space station for goodness sakes! That was because it used to be a flexible system and these types of local configuration modifications is what made Debian the best choice for custom systems. Bob
