Bug#679128: useless (?) dichotomy: sysfs is located under /bin on kfreebsd systems, while /sbin on Linuxes
On Wed, 27 Jun 2012, Craig Small wrote:
> > is there any specific reason or could it be shipped under /sbin/ ?
> Ask the freebsd-utils people, after all it is their program and not
> mine.
indeed:
debian/freebsd-utils.install:debian/local/scripts/bin/sysctl /bin
debian/freebsd-utils.manpages:sbin/sysctl/sysctl.8
debian/freebsd-utils-udeb.install:sbin/sysctl/sysctl /bin
.8 itself suggests /sbin isn't it? ;)
> dpkg -S `which sysctl` would of told you where sysctl comes from.
d'oh -- sad part that I have done that but on non-kfreebsd systems,
e.g.:
$> dpkg -S `which sysctl`
procps: /sbin/sysctl
and then I saw in procps's debian/rules explicit removal of /sbin/sysctl
so I just thought that it was for some reason installed under both /bin/ and
/sbin/... "it was late" would be my excuse
> Alternatively reportbug on the program name would of given the right
> package too.
I could not reportbug on porter boxes due to absent reportbug (tried that) :-P
> FWIW, procps won't be moving sysctl to /bin (for non-freebsd platforms)
And please don't! ;) /sbin/ is the location for it (unless that
everything-in-one-bin movement wins)
> reassign 679128 freebsd-utils
> thankyou
thank you!
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