I just noticed that coreutils is installing its own version of mktemp over the one installed by the mktemp project
I am not certain whether this is better, worse, or the same because I have no idea how their implementation differs, if any. I looked around on the LFS/BLFS lists to see if they mention mktemp as a program of coreutils and found no reference. This was probably not caught because they installed mktemp after coreutils, but for some reason I ended up installing mktemp-1.5 before coreutils and noticed this issue. I expect one should use the configure option: --enable-no-install-program=mktemp to default to the mktemp project. However, this begs the question if the coreutils is any more or any less secure than the mktemp project's mktemp program. -- Kevin Day -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/hlfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
