6556 – two versions of kill ; one in procps, one in util-linux

Bug 6556 - two versions of kill ; one in procps, one in util-linux

Summary: two versions of kill ; one in procps, one in util-linux

Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 18181

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	[OLD] Core system (show other bugs)
Hardware:	x86 Linux

Importance:	High normal (vote)
Assignee:	Brandon Low (RETIRED)

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Reported:	2002-08-15 17:57 UTC by Paul Thompson
Modified:	2005-07-17 13:06 UTC (History)
CC List:	2 users (show)

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Description Paul Thompson 2002-08-15 17:57:22 UTC

procps installs kill in /usr/bin (although the man page refers to /bin/kill)
util-linux installs kill in /bin
both packages install the man page in the same place, so one will always
overwrite the other,  and if you unmerge one, you will remove the others
man page

util-linux kill seems to be a superset of procps kill, although it is smaller.

If I had to choose, I would choose util-linux version. Either way, kill should
be in /bin.

Paul
(btw, if bug reports of this nature are not interesting, please let me know:)

Comment 1 Brandon Low (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2003-04-19 11:03:08 UTC

This may be the original bug, but I posted more info on the other one, so I'm going to knock this one out, and work from that one.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 18181 ***