Packages requires /sbin/service.

Ralf Corsepius rc040203 at freenet.de
Fri Mar 15 17:18:41 UTC 2013


On 03/15/2013 05:38 PM, Lukáš Nykrýn wrote:
> After usr move packages should not install files to /sbin. Unfortunately
> there is a lot of packages requiring /sbin/service, which was recently
> moved to /usr/sbin/, and these packages were uninstallable. As a
> workaround I have put Provides: /sbin/service in the initscript spec,
> but I think that we should do a proper fix.
>
> So if your package is in following list, please change your Reguires to
> /usr/sbin/service.

I am very much opposed to this change. You need to keep files which are 
expected to be in /bin or /sbin under these paths.

Ralf




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