Some runuser problems

[seth vidal]

On Tue, 2005-04-19 at 16:08 +0200, Matthias Saou wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm having trouble setting up an FC2 root with the current mach/yum build
> system. First, it seems to configuration regarding "/sbin/runuser" being
> overwritten for FC3 and FC Dev roots it redundant, as runuser is the
> default in the main mach file. But the problem is that it's in there with
> "@SBINDIR@/runuser" whereas it's always installed as "/sbin/runuser". I
> think hardcoding it as "/sbin/runuser" in mach.in would be an acceptable
> solution, otherwise a new configure check and replace should probably be
> done.
> 
> Now, I've added this to my "fedora-2-i386" file :
> 
> config['fedora-2-i386-core'] = {'runuser': '/bin/su'}
> 
> But it seems that it's not taken into account, and I really don't
> understand why. If I change the main runuser definition in /usr/bin/mach
> to /bin/su, then all works fine. I'm really puzzled on that one, and am
> wondering what I could be doing wrong. Any ideas?
> 

Thomas might disagree but I think all the autoconf stuff in mach is
overkill. It doesn't serve much purpose b/c the default use case is what
should be the default.

try setting that config in your /etc/mach/conf file.

just for fun.
-sv