Bug 1617 – sys-apps/tar: remote-tar expects rmt to be in /etc/rmt

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Daniel Mettler 2002-04-09 13:30:09 UTC]

`ln -s /usr/sbin/rmt /etc/rmt` does the trick ;) should be done by sys-apps/tar when emerging

[Comment 1 Daniel Robbins (RETIRED) 2002-04-09 20:56:55 UTC]

Can we patch remote-tar instead?  Or is this a dumb question?  I haven't used
rmt, to tell you the truth.

[Comment 2 Daniel Mettler 2002-04-10 17:23:51 UTC]

patching tar to search for e.g. /sbin/rmt:/usr/sbin/rmt:/etc/rmt (or in the path) on remote systems 
would be fine for outgoing connections. however, this would not solve the problem for incoming 
connections as most other boxes will only search for /etc/rmt on our gentoo box. the patch would thus 
have to be applied to all existing tar implementations out there. 
 
admittedly it's nasty to have such a "binary" symlink in /etc and i am not sure what fhs/lsb says 
about this. but i do not know of any other solution. 
 
here's the ebuild patch: 
 
--- tar-1.13.25-r1.ebuild       Wed Mar  6 19:55:22 2002 
+++ tar-1.13.25-r2.ebuild       Wed Apr 10 23:59:59 2002 
@@ -33,6 +33,9 @@ 
        cd ${D} 
        mv usr/lib/misc/rmt usr/sbin/rmt.gnu 
        dosym rmt.gnu /usr/sbin/rmt 
+       # a nasty yet required symlink: 
+       dodir /etc 
+       dosym /usr/sbin/rmt /etc/rmt 
        if [ -z "`use build`" ] 
        then 
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[Comment 3 Daniel Robbins (RETIRED) 2002-04-11 13:10:05 UTC]

Spider: can you fix this for me?

[Comment 4 Spider (RETIRED) 2002-04-12 09:25:24 UTC]

Okie. I'm at it, will go for the proposed way.