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Bug 56509 - Invalid files in /bin
Summary: Invalid files in /bin
Status: RESOLVED REMIND
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: [OLD] Core system (show other bugs)
Hardware: AMD64 Linux
: High major (vote)
Assignee: Gentoo's Team for Core System packages
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Reported: 2004-07-08 20:59 UTC by Robert Moss (RETIRED)
Modified: 2004-07-20 05:41 UTC (History)
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Description Robert Moss (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2004-07-08 20:59:29 UTC
csplit, expand, factor, fmt, fold, join, md5sum, nl, od, paste, pathchk, pinky, pr, printf, sha1sum, shred, sum, tac, tail, test, tsort, unexpand, users

The above list of files are located in /bin. They should not be there. They are not owned by any package. As such, as /bin appears before /usr/bin in ${PATH}, upgrades to the packages which are supposed to own the aforementioned binaries don't actually upgrade the binary which gets used. The same also goes for /usr/sbin/gcc-config. They are put there, as far as I can tell, by extracting the stage tarball.

These files, in the interests of security (amongst other things), should be removed from the stage tarballs on all architectures. If a security flaw in one of the above files is found, an upgrade does not replace it. Whether it is the case that the above are in the wrong place, or coreutils is installing things in the wrong place, is a matter I leave to you. For the security reason I have marked this as "major"; if you feel this is inappropriate please feel free to change it.
Comment 1 Robert Moss (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2004-07-08 21:00:32 UTC
EDIT: Also, if I've assigned this incorrectly, I apologise, and please move it on to where it should be.
Comment 2 SpanKY gentoo-dev 2004-07-08 21:06:52 UTC
so delete them off your system

somewhere an upgrade went out of sync leaving those files stranded

as you say, no package owns them (and they dont exist on my system anymore)
Comment 3 Jon Portnoy (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2004-07-08 21:47:20 UTC
Not on my system, either.
Comment 4 Robert Moss (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2004-07-09 06:43:23 UTC
I did delete them off my system. But they're still on everyone else's system. I suspect that these may actually be part of the AMD64 stage tarballs - reopening and marking AMD64-specific until I can verify or otherwise.
Comment 5 Kris Kersey (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2004-07-19 07:14:46 UTC
As an AMD64 devel I've verified that these files do not exist in /bin on my system.  If another AMD64 user can verify that they do not exist, we will mark it as invalid and assume this was isolated.
Comment 6 Malcolm Lashley (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2004-07-19 16:36:53 UTC
Rob et. al. 

I have the files on my system, as does herbie64 in #g-amd64. 
Lv does not. 

HOWEVER... I personally have recovered from broken glibc with tarballs and played with all manner of stage-tarballs on this box, so I suspect it was an isolated incident that led to this occurance on my box.

Are you sure that maybe you too haven't b0rk3n your system in the past and tried to copy the /bin from the LiveCD?? 

I checked all the 2004.2(-testing) stage-tarballs for tsort and it's in /usr/bin in each.
Comment 7 Herbie Hopkins (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2004-07-19 16:43:20 UTC
I have these files lurking in my /bin also. I happened to still have the stage tarball I used to install:
55f82e96d0945afe1b9a75df9cf84879  stage1-amd64-2004.1.tar.bz2
and they are indeed contained within.
Comment 8 Robert Moss (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2004-07-20 05:41:30 UTC
This was a problem with the 2004.1 stage tarballs, but isn't with the (pre-)2004.2 stage tarballs. I would suggest that special note is taken of this bug if coreutils ever gets hit by a critical bug of any sort, as those erroneous files in /bin will prevent any security fixes, for example, to the above files taking effect.

For now, changing bug status to REMIND.