Coreutils update/mktemp

[Zbigniew Luszpinski]

Tuesday 22 of April 2008 00:18:47 Zbigniew Luszpinski wrote:
> 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.

Proof of concept commited to Zbiggy's workshop/zbiggy-WIP branch on
Tue, 22 Apr 2008 18:45:12 +0000 (20:45 +0200)

The result:
lvu install mktemp | grep mktemp
/bin/mktemp

lvu install coreutils | grep mktemp
/usr/bin/mktemp
/usr/share/man/man1/mktemp.1.gz

have a nice day,
Zbigniew 'zbiggy' Luszpinski