Bug 271302

Summary:	sys-apps/module-init-tools-3.8 dropped symlink /sbin/lsmod -> ../bin/lsmod
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Justin Lecher (RETIRED) <jlec>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Gentoo's Team for Core System packages <base-system>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX
Severity:	normal	CC:	shell-tools, willard.dawson
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	271245, 271286

Description Justin Lecher (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2009-05-26 12:48:08 UTC

due to this several packages are broken, see bug 271286 as example

Comment 1 Jeremy Olexa (darkside) (RETIRED) archtester

2009-05-26 12:54:28 UTC

Is this permanent and by design? thx

Comment 2 Justin Lecher (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2009-05-26 12:57:45 UTC

the old version set the symlink with dosym the newer have dropped this line.

Comment 3 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2009-05-26 22:27:08 UTC

hardcoding of utils is never a good idea.  use PATH.

if there is significant breakage, i can re-add it temporarily, but if the only packages are vmware and bash-completion, they can get fixed.

Comment 4 Matthias Schwarzott gentoo-dev

2009-06-23 08:20:21 UTC

I don't want to have this symlink re-added, but I think upstream still tries to install it - have a look at install-with-care.
Just that their code doesn't work when not installing into /