On Tuesday 24 June 2008, Patryk Zawadzki wrote: > On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 10:26 PM, Arkadiusz Miskiewicz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tuesday 24 June 2008, Patryk Zawadzki wrote: > >> On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 9:37 AM, Elan Ruusamäe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > On Tuesday 10 June 2008 01:59:04 Patryk Zawadzki wrote: > >> >> The problem we are currently facing is that installing packages to a > >> >> fresh system results in poldek being confused about coreutils + pam > >> >> circular deps. > >> > > >> > i guess it's rather rpm being confused? the circular loops can be > >> > broken with rpm-whiteout.spec. however i'd support package spliting > >> > really. > >> > >> coreutils rel 3 now has a separate subpackage for su and runuser. Also > >> sent to th-test for testing. > > > > The problem with split is that people using su to switch to root will > > have a problem after doing simple upgrade (most people won't notice -su > > subpackage). > > I don't see how that's a problem - it's a matter of installing one > package (and not a required one - on my system no package requires > /bin/su). I'm used to typing 'sudo su -' but then I just installed the > subpackage and it works as expected. It's a one-time operation.
su - poldek, do coreutils upgrade quit exit and next time su - fails as this commands no longer exists. Now you have to drive 300km to get into server console, log into root and install coreutils-su since at this time you will know about the split 8-) -- Arkadiusz Miśkiewicz PLD/Linux Team arekm / maven.pl http://ftp.pld-linux.org/ _______________________________________________ pld-devel-en mailing list pld-devel-en@lists.pld-linux.org http://lists.pld-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/pld-devel-en