/usr/sbin/validate clash with /usr/bin/validate

[Daniel J Walsh]

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On 05/24/2012 12:04 AM, Matt Domsch wrote:
> On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 01:22:35PM -0500, Paul Wouters wrote:
>> 
>> I just got caught in having two different "validate" commands in my 
>> path.
>> 
>> The /usr/bin/validate version is from the dnssec-tools package. It has a 
>> man page and usage info and is a tool to diagnose dnssec lookups.
> 
> I humbly suggest that the dnssec-tools package should consider changing the
> name of that executable as well, perhaps dnssec-validate.  There are many
> tools that could claim the term 'validate' for an aspect of what they do.
> What if 'rpm -V package' had instead been written as 'validate package' ?
> Or 'gpg -v signaturefile' had been 'validate signaturefile' ?  I know,
> first come first served, but it feels presumptuous to lay claim to a
> generic action such as this.
> 
> Thanks, Matt
> 

I agree,  we should not use a generic name for this function.
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