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

[Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek]

On Mon, Aug 10, 2015 at 12:19:39PM -0600, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> 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. 
Talking to upstream is good, but independently stripesnoop should
be immediately renamed to stripesnoop. You cannot just stick
a binary with the same name as a well-known system utility in
front of the path.

Zbyszek