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

Josh Stone jistone at redhat.com
Mon Aug 10 18:50:52 UTC 2015


On 08/10/2015 11:12 AM, Orion Poplawski 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?

Do emphasize *different* programs or packages, as there are legitimate
self-contained cases -- /usr/bin/mock vs. /usr/sbin/mock for instance.



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