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From: Michael Olbrich <m.olbrich@pengutronix.de>
To: ptxdist@pengutronix.de
Subject: Re: [ptxdist] executables in /usr/bin vs /bin
Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2016 09:30:30 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160211083030.GA6633@pengutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160210174804.GA9521@archie.tuxnet.lan>

On Wed, Feb 10, 2016 at 06:48:04PM +0100, Clemens Gruber wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> in the proposed version bump for procps, the default path changed to
> /bin instead of /usr/bin. In my patch I just renamed the paths. But
> maybe that's the wrong approach and we should keep all binaries in
> /usr/bin ?
> 
> Debian on the other hand puts most of them in /usr/bin and a few into
> /bin.
> 
> Should I send a v2 with all rules changed like this?
> @$(call install_copy, procps, 0, 0, 0755, /bin/free, /usr/bin/free)

That would be ... $(PROCPS_PKGDIR)/bin/free, /usr/bin/free)

And yes, I'd like a v2 like this. I'm not sure if any of these paths are
hardcoded somewhere. In the long term I'd like to get rid of the usr-split,
but that requires some more work.

> Or should we put some binaries in /bin to be consistent with Debian?
> (/bin/ps, /bin/pidof, /usr/bin/top, /usr/bin/vmstat, ... ?)

Just keep them where they are now.

> Btw: This is the commit from procps-ng where they changed it to /bin:
> https://gitlab.com/procps-ng/procps/commit/430b559ba2826f80dffa840622ae0fc744000b13

Michael

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