Coreutils update/mktemp

[Zbigniew Luszpinski]

Monday 21 of April 2008 18:34:50 Kok, Auke wrote:
> Zbigniew Luszpinski wrote:
> > * removed sedits added in ver 6.10
> > * added symlinks to /usr/bin/{uname|arch}
> > * now conflicting shadow procps mktemp net-tools
>
> let's not do this... this can still break things.. please check my other
> mail I just sent to the list a second ago.

What about:
/usr/share/man/man1/mktemp.1.gz
How to resolve this conflict?

How about such fix:
module: mktemp, change install prefix to /bin:
to install mktemp to /bin/mktemp
modify Makefile to not install:
/usr/share/man/man1/mktemp.1.gz
(and commit this update long before coreutils commit to make sure it will be 
updated before coreutils will lin it in pre_build).

then
module: coreutils
add to PRE_BUILD:
lin -c mktemp
to install updated mktemp module to /bin before lining coreutils.

Thanks to this we have advantages:
*mktemp will move itself to /bin and will not install mktemp.1.gz,
then coreutils will install files to /usr/bin and /usr/share/man.
*when mktemp module is going to be removed the default /usr/bin 
and /usr/share/man files installed by coreutuils will be untouched by lrm 
mktemp.
*thanks to lin -c mktemp in pre_build we know for sure current, working mktemp 
is indeed in /bin. Then we again know new mktemp will go to /usr/bin.
(this is protection against 'no mktemp' problem when something goes wrong or 
an user has non-default file/directory layout). The 'no mktemp' problem is 
very painful as lin does not work without mktemp app. 

zbiggy