Moving lspci and setpci from /sbin to /usr/sbin?

[Maxim Burgerhout]

Hi Michal,

A few thoughts on this:

- on RHEL boxes, the dependency on libpci does not exist and lspci is
in /sbin. Therefore, on RHEL boxes, lspci will still work with a
broken /usr partition. I haven't heard of anyone absolutely needing
lspci on a system with a broken /usr partition, but it *is* possible
to use it. Moving it also breaks a pretty long tradition, but that
should matter too much. I actually prefer lspci to be in my path as a
normal user.

- it would be consistent if lsusb would make the same move to
/usr/sbin, if lspci goes that way.

- I noticed Debian puts lspci in /usr/bin. I'm curious about the
reason lspci is to remain in a sbin directory if it's being moved
anyway.

I haven't been involved in Fedora for that long, but I'd like to
participate in this discussion a bit, if that's ok :-)

Regards,

Maxim Burgerhout
maxim at wzzrd.com
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On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 14:17, Michal Hlavinka <mhlavink at redhat.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> in Fedora we have pciutils binaries (lspci and setpci) in /sbin, both of them
> use pciutils-libs (/usr/lib/...) and afaik this is how it works for "ages".
> I'd like to move them from /sbin to /usr/sbin to have them with the same prefix
> as library has. Do you think it can break anything?
>
> A few facts:
> 1)library is already in /usr/lib and lspci/setpci won't work without it
> 2)pci.ids (lives in hwdata package) is in /usr/share/hwdata
> 3)yum remove pciutils will remove only system-config-{firewall,network} as
> dependencies
>
> Do you think moving this is a bad idea? I think it should not break anything,
> only problem can be with separate /usr partition but because of library in
> /usr it would be already broken and I've not seen any complain about it ever.
>
> If there are no complains, I'll move it next week (in rawhide only).
>
> Cheers,
> Michal Hlavinka
>
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