246769 – sys-apps/file-4.26: magic files installed one dir level too deep

Bug 246769 - sys-apps/file-4.26: magic files installed one dir level too deep

Summary: sys-apps/file-4.26: magic files installed one dir level too deep

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Alias:	None

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

Importance:	High minor
Assignee:	Gentoo's Team for Core System packages

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Reported:	2008-11-14 20:15 UTC by Ulrich Müller
Modified:	2009-02-14 02:43 UTC (History)
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Description Ulrich Müller gentoo-dev

2008-11-14 20:15:29 UTC

The ebuild defines datadir=/usr/share/misc which leads to installation of magic* in /usr/share/misc/file/. This deviates from upstream and also from FHS.

It should be installed in /usr/share/file/ instead, i.e. the ebuild should leave datadir alone.

(I've looked into our CVS history: This datadir definition was already present for sys-apps/file-3.*. At the time that was o.k., since there was only one file, namely /usr/share/misc/magic.)

Comment 1 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2009-02-14 02:43:22 UTC

file-5.00 installs just 1 data file, so ive moved that to /usr/share/misc/ in file-5.00-r1 ...