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

[Michal Hlavinka]

On Wednesday 27 January 2010 14:51:15 Maxim Burgerhout wrote:
> 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.

well, on RHEL5 there is no pciutils-libs, so it does not depend on any library 
in /usr/lib, but it depends at least on /usr/share/hwdata/pci.ids and without 
it lspci is not that useful

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

on the other hand lsusb requires library from /usr/lib (on RHEL5) so it is in 
/sbin but won't work without mounted /usr (and there are also usb.ids)

> 
> - 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.

good question

> 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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