Dne 22.6.2017 v 17:15 Petr Šabata napsal(a):
> While playing with Base Runtime container base images we noticed
> that some packages couldn't be installed with coreutils-single
> due to their /bin file dependencies.  Unlike the original
> coreutils package, coreutils-single doesn't provide the
> pre-UsrMove paths.
>
> Now there are at least two ways to resolve this.  We either
>
> a) change all the packages that depend on /bin/* coreutils
> paths, or
> b) we add the respective /bin provides to coreutils-single.
>
> Reading the packaging guidelines[0], I'd lean towards "fixing"
> the coreutils subpackage, while the coreutils maintainers
> believe we should change packages that depend on obsolete paths.
>
> For the record, there appear to be only 25 binary packages that
> depend on /bin coreutils paths[1];

What is the source of this /bin dependencies? Are they autogenerated or
maintainers are using R: /bin/someutil (where they should be using
%{_bindir}/someutil)?


Vít


>  patching coreutils is also
> trivial[2].
>
> I'm curious as to what other people think about both this
> specific case as well as how to solve these issues in general.
>
> Cheers,
> P
>
> [0] 
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#Effect_of_the_UsrMove_Fedora_Feature
> [1] https://paste.fedoraproject.org/paste/v-SDa5byzWT93OKPWZ~XKQ/
> [2] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1463384#c1
>
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