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Bug 3288 - awk ebuild should probably create link in /bin
Summary: awk ebuild should probably create link in /bin
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: [OLD] Core system (show other bugs)
Hardware: x86 Linux
: High normal (vote)
Assignee: Martin Schlemmer (RETIRED)
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Reported: 2002-05-31 19:30 UTC by Sean P. Kane
Modified: 2003-02-04 19:42 UTC (History)
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Description Sean P. Kane 2002-05-31 19:30:40 UTC
the awk ebuild doesn't create a link in /bin, but because this is such a major 
unic program and many scripts expect it to be there (granted, maybe a fault 
with the scripts), it would probably be a good idea to link /usr/bin/awk 
to /bin/awk by default.
Comment 1 Seemant Kulleen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2002-06-04 21:27:41 UTC
He may have a point on this.  I remember I had a problem with booting up a while
ago because /usr is a separate partition and awk is used in depscan.sh.  Dunno
if that's still the case, but if it is, would it warrant the binary being placed
in /bin and the symlink to it in /usr/bin ?
Comment 2 Martin Schlemmer (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2002-06-05 14:25:42 UTC
Example scripts ?

(Note to Seemant:  depscan.sh dont use awk anymore ... actually dont think
                   it ever did.  I think it was the /usr/bin/basename that
                   it used which gave us that headace.)
Comment 3 Sean P. Kane 2002-06-05 17:35:50 UTC
The scripts I was talking about weren't Gentoo scripts. Just things like Cisco 
vpnclient and Oracle Client installs that had trouble finding some binaries and 
I need to hand create a few links to get them to work. I suppose this is more 
of an error in their script writing, but I was wondering if certain utils and 
locations are so "unix standard" that including them in /bin isn't such a bad 
idea....

sh
awk
sed
Comment 4 Martin Schlemmer (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2002-06-05 18:12:24 UTC
Point taken.  Btw, sh and sed are already in /bin.
Comment 5 Martin Schlemmer (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2002-06-24 17:57:04 UTC
gawk-3.1.0-r2 should fix the /bin/awk symlink.