Opened 21 years ago
Closed 20 years ago
#679 closed defect (fixed)
Too many coreutils binaries moved to /bin
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| Priority: | normal | Milestone: | |
| Component: | Book | Version: | CVS |
| Severity: | normal | Keywords: | |
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Description
LSB compliance implies FHS compliance.
The FHS mentions the minimum set of essential binaries that need to be in /bin. It also talks about "may also contain commands which are used indirectly by scripts".
We are currently moving these binaries into /bin that are not mentioned by FHS:
dir dircolors du install mkfifo shred touch vdir
Unless someone comes up with good reasons why these binaries should live in /bin, I propose we leave them in /usr/bin by not moving them and adjust the coreutils commnds accordingly. We would make a symlink to "/usr/bin/install" in /bin.
Not urgent. Discuss on lfs-dev after 5.0 release.
Change History (5)
comment:1 by , 21 years ago
comment:2 by , 21 years ago
FHS also mentions, or used to mention, that all binaries that are used in bootscripts should reside in /bin and /sbin as appropriate. In case the /usr mount fails, the boot process won't fail due to binaries that might be missing (but a missing /usr might not cause the boot to fail if such bins would be in /bin or /sbin).
Some files that Greg mentioned (vdir dircolors maybe others) aren't used in the bootscripts so should reside in /usr/bin
So, somebody is going to scrutinize the bootscripts to figure out the extra binaries we need in /bin and /sbin
comment:3 by , 21 years ago
In response to comment #1, yes, "touch" is used in the bootscripts currently. But it's use is bogus and not needed at all. It can be replaced by "> /var/run/utmp" like is currently done in the mountfs script for /etc/mtab.
In response to Gerard's comment, AFAICT, all binaries currently used in the bootscripts are currently in /bin and /sbin.
comment:4 by , 20 years ago
| Priority: | lowest → normal |
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comment:5 by , 20 years ago
| Resolution: | → fixed |
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| Status: | new → closed |
Have committed the fixes. Also, Have left "touch" and "install" for now i.e. we're still moving them into /bin.
"touch" should definitely be left in /usr/bin, but this cannot happen until the bootscripts are modified. Will make a comment in the bootscripts bz entry. Closing.
touch is used in /etc/rc.d/init.d/cleanfs. But the file systems are mounted before it's run so it shouldn't matter if it's in /usr/bin (if the user has /usr on a different partition) rather than /bin should it?