Opened 14 years ago

Closed 14 years ago

#2782 closed task (fixed)

Minor tweak to Coreutils installation

Reported by: randy@… Owned by: bdubbs@…
Priority: normal Milestone: 6.8
Component: Book Version: SVN
Severity: normal Keywords:
Cc:

Description

The following command should probably be installed in the Coreutils instructions to meet FHS requirements:

mv -v /usr/share/man/man1/chroot.1 \
      /usr/share/man/man8/chroot.8

Change History (4)

comment:1 by willimm, 14 years ago

But then there would be a naming inconsistency in the manpages: Chroot's man page would still refer to it's old name, and if it's referred in another manpage, it will refer to that name again. To fix that, we need some seds.

comment:2 by Matthew Burgess, 14 years ago

chroot isn't mentioned explicitly (from what I could see anyway) in either the FHS or The Open Group Base Specifications Issue 7 (IEEE Std 1003.1-2008). So, I guess it comes down to http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#USRSHAREMANMANUALPAGES which says that section 1 is for "User programs" and section 8 is for "System administration". Given that only root can run chroot (unless a user's shell process has been given CAP_SYS_CHROOT privs), I'd be in agreement that this should be in section 8. Note that Debian & Ubuntu also happen to place the chroot man page in section 8. This is from the debian/rules hunk of their patch at http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/c/coreutils/coreutils_8.5-1ubuntu3.diff.gz:

+	# gnu thinks chroot is in bin, debian thinks it's in sbin
+	install -d $(d)/usr/sbin $(d)/usr/share/man/man8
+	mv $(d)/usr/bin/chroot $(d)/usr/sbin/chroot
+	sed s/\"1\"/\"8\"/1 $(d)/usr/share/man/man1/chroot.1 > $(d)/usr/share/man/man8/chroot.8
+	rm $(d)/usr/share/man/man1/chroot.1

The only other file that refers to this in an LFS + partial BLFS build is pivot_root(8). I'll see if I can throw a patch at bug-coreutils and see if it sticks!

comment:3 by bdubbs@…, 14 years ago

Owner: changed from lfs-book@… to bdubbs@…
Status: newassigned

comment:4 by bdubbs@…, 14 years ago

Resolution: fixed
Status: assignedclosed

Fixed at revision 9449.

Note: See TracTickets for help on using tickets.