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

[Allan McRae]

On 15/05/13 07:17, Dave Reisner wrote:
> On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 11:07:59PM +0200, Tom Gundersen wrote:
>> 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
> 
> Expanding on that logic, why aren't we just doing this all at once?
> 

I really wanted to reduce the size of the job first, given ~90% of the
rebuild could be easily done separately.

Allan