On 6-Jan-08, at 12:22 , Hanspeter Niederstrasser wrote:
> Kevin Horton wrote:
>> On 6-Jan-08, at 11:55 , Daniel Macks wrote:
>>
>>> On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 11:43:12AM -0500, Kevin Horton wrote:
>>>> I note that fink's textutils package depends on coreutils-
>>>> default. I
>>>> am not convinced that this is a good thing, as it seems that some
>>>> of
>>>> the programs in the coreutils package may cause problems if they
>>>> replace the basic programs installed with OS X. But, I need
>>>> sha1sum,
>>>> which is part of the textutils package. It would be nice if I
>>>> could
>>>> install textutils without also installing coreutils-default.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for your fink packages.
>>> The "coreutils" package installs all the coreutils commands but with
>>> slightly different names precisely for this reason (I think they are
>>> all prefixed with a 'g'). The only thing that "coreutils-default"
>>> does
>>> is make the coreutils programs the *default* ones in your shell.
>>
>>
>> But, if install coreutils, that does not provide sha1sum. If I want
>> sha1sum, I need to install textutils, and that depends on the
>> coreutils-default package.
>
> About a year and a half ago, the old gnu utils all got merged into
> coreutils, including sha1sum. Textutils is now an empty splitoff of
> coreutils, so you really want to install just coreutils. This is
> probably a bug in the Depends: of {shell,text,file}utils splitoffs
> that
> they Depends: on coreutils-default, though I guess it's there for
> backwards compatability for people with the old utils packages that
> expect them to be in certain paths.
The light bulb just went on here, helped by a study of a coreutils
build log. Coreutils does provide gsha1sum. I was looking for
sha1sum, but that symlink is only in coreutils-default. I'll create
my own symlink in ~/bin, which should satisfy the program looking for
sha1sum, without requiring coreutils-default.
Thanks for your patience.
--
Kevin Horton
Ottawa, Canada
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