/usr boot time dependencies
Paul Jakma
paul at dishone.st
Fri Aug 15 08:05:07 UTC 2003
hi,
i've noticed the following:
[paul at fogarty paul]$ which id
/usr/bin/id
[paul at fogarty paul]$ which uniq
/usr/bin/uniq
[paul at fogarty paul]$ rpm -ql tcp_wrappers | grep libwrap.so
/usr/lib/libwrap.so
/usr/lib/libwrap.so.0
/usr/lib/libwrap.so.0.7.6
The problem with this is that:
- id and uniq are required by init scripts, eg to setup IPv6 in the
network init script, and portmap init script requires it too.
- portmap resides in /bin but links to libwrap.so - which is in
/usr/lib and may not be available.
so would it be possible for:
- the coreutils package to /truely/ be core, ie everything it
installs should be either to /bin or /sbin. If needs be it should be
pruned of utils which are not really core.
- tcp_wrappers to install to /lib, not /usr/lib. This is a fairly
important library, why is it installed to /usr/lib?
thanks (from someone who boots machines from NFS, with /usr as a
seperate export).
regards,
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