Re: [MiNT] SSH RPM?

[Guido.Flohr@t-online.de (Guido Flohr)]

Hi,

On Sun, Dec 17, 2000 at 03:33:15PM +0100, Maurits van de Kamp wrote:
> > If a Sparemint rpm really expects /usr/bin and /bin 
> to be different
> > directories (and not just symlinks) please report 
> that as a bug.  It
> > is not intended.
> 
> Ok, here's my report. :) Well it's not the installer, 
> but certain packages, that install binaries in /bin and 
> then symlink them to /usr/bin. What you're left with is 
> simlinks pointing to themselves in /bin and no binaries 
> (as they are overwritten by the symlinks). I remember 
> the gzip package doing that, for example.
> 
> Maurits.
> 

That would be such a bug.  The symlink should be done by the postinstall
script, and should handle it gracefully if ln fails because /bin/gzip and
/usr/bin/gzip are the same files.

Using "ln -sf" for such a thing is definitely not correct.

Ciao

Guido