Same comand names in /usr/bin and /usr/sbin

Kevin Fenzi kevin at scrye.com
Mon Aug 10 18:19:39 UTC 2015


On Mon, 10 Aug 2015 12:12:17 -0600
Orion Poplawski <orion at cora.nwra.com> wrote:

> iproute has /usr/sbin/ss
> stripesnoop has /usr/bin/ss
> 
> This causes problems:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1249328
> 
> It seems like we should have a policy prohibiting different programs
> with the same command names being in /usr/bin and /usr/sbin.
> Thoughts?

Well, we already have: 
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Conflicts#Binary_Name_Conflicts

But of course thats not exactly the same case as here, but I think the
solution is the same: Talk to upstream and get them to rename if at
all possible. 

kevin
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