On Thu, Aug 16, 2001 at 04:49:16PM +0100, Andrew Josey wrote:
> This is one of those cases where AFAIK the test is testing
> the requirements of the specification. Now it could be that
> (a) the test is making an incorrect interpretation of
> the spec (b) the spec is wrong or (c) the spec is correct
> and conforming systems are required to have the symlink
> as tested.
From the FHS:
Some executable commands such as makewhatis and sendmail have also been
traditionally placed in /usr/lib. makewhatis is an internal binary and
should be placed in a binary directory; users access only catman. Newer
sendmail binaries are now placed by default in /usr/sbin; a symbolic
link should remain from /usr/lib. Additionally, systems using a
sendmail-compatible mail transport agent should provide
/usr/sbin/sendmail as a symbolic link to the appropriate executable.
So:
[ -L /usr/lib/sendmail ] || warning "/usr/lib/sendmail not a symlink"
[ -x /usr/sbin/sendmail ] ||
error "/usr/sbin/sendmail isn't MTA or compat symlink"
[ "`linkdest /usr/lib/sendmail`" = "`linkdest /usr/sbin/sendmail`" ] ||
error "/usr/lib/sendmail != /usr/sbin/sendmail"
would seem to be the correct tests, for some value of "linkdest".
It still seems a bit meaningless to have lots of test cases when there's
not even a prototypical working product (ie, some .lsb packages that
can be installed on some distro), though.
Cheers,
aj
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