172286 – sys-apps/coreutils-6.7-r1 breakes /bin/nice depending apps

Bug 172286 - sys-apps/coreutils-6.7-r1 breakes /bin/nice depending apps

Summary: sys-apps/coreutils-6.7-r1 breakes /bin/nice depending apps

Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 161552

Alias:	None

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

Importance:	High normal (vote)
Assignee:	Gentoo Linux bug wranglers

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Reported:	2007-03-26 11:34 UTC by Karel Hala
Modified:	2007-03-26 11:55 UTC (History)
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Description Karel Hala 2007-03-26 11:34:21 UTC

After an upgrade of this package any other application which uses /bin/nice can crash or can have difficulties. I have noticed that by package sys-cluster/util-vserver-0.30.212-r2 by command:

router ~ # vserver public enter
/usr/lib/util-vserver/vserver.functions: line 122: /bin/nice: No such file or directory
/usr/lib/util-vserver/vserver.functions: line 126: let: nice=0-: syntax error: operand expected (error token is "-")


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. for example vserver somevserver enter
2. anything other calling /bin/nice
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Actual Results:  
Make a symlink /bin/nice -> /usr/bin/nice results beeing this corrected.

Expected Results:  
In case of moving files in directory tree - preserve backwards files compatibility by symlinks

Comment 1 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2007-03-26 11:36:27 UTC

So re-emerge them. ;)

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 161552 ***

Comment 2 Karel Hala 2007-03-26 11:55:58 UTC

hmmm, my point is compatibility among system apps. 

Re-emerging packages everytime someone decides to change path of programs in any sys related package, sorry but this I see as madness. 

Fyi as I have mentioned in report, making symlink does the trick. For me solution is making symlinks by package ebuild to programs with their changed path - this is so obvious...