#687 closed defect (duplicate)
Prune the number of "kill" binaries installed
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| Priority: | highest | Milestone: | |
| Component: | Book | Version: | CVS |
| Severity: | normal | Keywords: | |
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Description
"kill" is a shell builtin so it doesn't matter most of the time. But some scripts will call /bin/kill so we need to have one there at least.
Three packages currently install "kill"
coreutils -> /usr/bin procps -> /bin util-linux -> /bin
I propose that we use the one from procps. The one from util-linux can be inhibited from installing by building it like so:
make HAVE_KILL=yes HAVE_SLN=yes
The one from coreutils can be removed by:
rm /usr/bin/kill
(similar to how we deal with /bin/groups from shadow).
Deal with this after 5.0 release.
Change History (2)
comment:1 by , 22 years ago
| Priority: | high → highest |
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comment:2 by , 22 years ago
| Resolution: | → duplicate |
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| Status: | new → closed |
BUg #307 is the more generic bug to deal with this issue book wide, moving it there.
* This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 307 *
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Raising to P1. Needs to be fixed asap, as currently when we reinstall a certain package (say util-linux) we end up with a different kill program. Not a huge deal, but it's not a clean way to go.