[arch-dev-public] [arch-commits] Commit in fail2ban/trunk (PKGBUILD)

[Tom Gundersen]

On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 10:49 PM, Dave Reisner <d at falconindy.com> wrote:
> On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 10:37:43PM +0200, Sébastien Luttringer wrote:
>> On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 10:22 PM, Bartłomiej Piotrowski
>> <bpiotrowski at nymeria.archlinux.org> wrote:
>> >     Date: Tuesday, May 14, 2013 @ 22:22:08
>> >   Author: bpiotrowski
>> > Revision: 90846
>> >
>> > upgpkg: fail2ban 0.8.8-3
>> >
>> > - correct path to sendmail due to migration to /usr/bin
>> I see you moved exim from /usr/sbin/sendmail to /usr/bin/sendmail.
>>
>> This path is hardcoded to /usr/sbin/sendmail in _many_ sotfwares and
>> all others  rely on it (ssmtp, postfix, opensmtpd, heilroom-mailx,
>> etc).
>>
>> By example,
>> # mail -s toto seblu at seblu.net
>> test
>> .
>> EOT
>> /usr/sbin/sendmail: No such file or directory
>> "/root/dead.letter" 9/210
>> . . . message not sent.
>>
>> I think we should do this correctly and rebuild /usr/sbin/sendmail in
>> one shot, or include it in the global switch.
>
> It's only hardcoded as /usr/sbin/sendmail for mailx because that's what
> the PKGBUILD for heirloom-mailx sets it to. Other packages can be fixed
> as well.

I'm not following. If this path is hardcoded in several packages (and
presumably in lots of custom packages/scripts), isn't this precisely
one of the cases where we should delay the move until we do the proper
usrmove and create the compat symlinks?

Cheers,

Tom