216726 – sys-apps/diffutils-2.8.7-r2 - binaries needed in /bin when /usr/bin not yet accessible

Bug 216726 - sys-apps/diffutils-2.8.7-r2 - binaries needed in /bin when /usr/bin not yet accessible

Summary: sys-apps/diffutils-2.8.7-r2 - binaries needed in /bin when /usr/bin not yet a...

Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX

Alias:	None

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

Importance:	High normal (vote)
Assignee:	Gentoo's Team for Core System packages

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Blocks:	216716
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Reported:	2008-04-07 15:24 UTC by Lucian Muresan
Modified:	2008-04-07 21:08 UTC (History)
CC List:	0 users

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ebuild patch (diffutils-2.8.7-r2.ebuild_rootfs.diff,692 bytes, patch) 2008-04-07 15:27 UTC, Lucian Muresan	Details \| Diff
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Description Lucian Muresan 2008-04-07 15:24:33 UTC

Sometimes 'diff' is needed to be installed in /bin when
/usr/bin is not yet accessible (like in sys-apps/hprofile). Had to patch the ebuild (with optional USE flag, patch following). BTW, is it worth not keeping this binaries in /bin?

Comment 1 Lucian Muresan 2008-04-07 15:27:22 UTC

Created attachment 148995 [details, diff]
ebuild patch

optionally (by USE flag "rootfs" installs binaries into /(s)bin instead of /usr/(s)bin

Comment 2 Martin Aspeli 2008-04-07 15:35:29 UTC

I no longer maintain hprofile (or use Linux) so I'm unable to help any further.
Sorry.

Comment 3 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2008-04-07 21:08:49 UTC

i'm not interested in shuffling a lot of binaries from /usr to / just to
satisfy a random package