Kevin Kofler via devel wrote:
> Aoife Moloney wrote:
>> == Summary ==
>> The `/usr/sbin` directory becomes a symlink to `bin`, which means
>> paths like `/usr/bin/foo` and `/usr/sbin/foo` point to the same place.
>> `/bin` and `/sbin` are already symlinks to `/usr/bin` and `/usr/sbin`,
>> so effectively `/bin/foo` and `/sbin/foo` also point to the same
>> place. `/usr/sbin` will be removed from the default `$PATH`.
>
> I am against this because it breaks my kannolo-root-unlocker package:
> https://svn.calcforge.org/viewvc/kannolo/trunk/packages/kannolo-root-unlocker/kannolo-root-unlocker.spec?revision=270&view=markup
>
> I do not want to patch/overwrite the binaries in /usr/bin (because it will
> make the RPM verify fail, and also historically because it breaks
> deltarpms, though AIUI we do not support those anymore anyway), so I put
> the ones patched to accept running as root into /usr/sbin, which is
> conveniently before /usr/bin in root's PATH. This change breaks that.
>
> If this is implemented, I will have to change the kannolo-root-unlocker to
> patch the binaries in place. But people who have the old version of
> kannolo- root-unlocker installed may end up with corrupt binaries, because
> the scriptlets of course do not expect %{_bindir} and %{_sbindir} to be
> the same or symlinks to the same. (They are different macros for a
> reason.)
Note that I already thought of using /usr/local/bin, in fact this was my
first attempt, but that does not work because kdesu does not search in
/usr/local/bin, and the KDE SIG also refused to fix that.
Kevin Kofler
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