On Mon, Nov 28, 2016 at 2:57 PM, Stephen Gallagher <sgall...@redhat.com>
wrote:

> On 11/28/2016 03:41 PM, Steve Dickson wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > Are there any rules regarding changing the
> > path of binaries?
> >
> > rpcbind/rpcinfo has lived in /usr/sbin for
> > years but that is because the spec file moves
> > the binary from /usr/bin to /usr/sbin during
> > the install. Upstream defaults to /usr/bin.
> >
> > Due to some systemd service file changes
> > I would like to just leave rpcbind/rpcinfo
> > in /usr/bin which means the path of those
> > binaries would change.
> >
>
> It depends on whether you consider that file location to be "API" or not.
> Given
> that upstream considers them to belong in /usr/bin, I'd guess that probably
> there aren't any other packages relying on these executables living in that
> location.
>

I only found one but I have not investigated further:

# dnf repoquery --whatrequires /usr/sbin/rpcinfo
Local Packages for Fedora 24                     30 MB/s |  70 kB     00:00
nagios-plugins-rpc-0:2.1.1-1.fc24.x86_64



> If there are, you might want to just move them and leave a symlink behind
> for
> compatibility.
>

+1

Thanks,
Richard
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