* [gentoo-dev] removing debianutils from profiles
@ 2003-08-03 1:10 Mike Frysinger
2003-08-03 10:20 ` Paul de Vrieze
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From: Mike Frysinger @ 2003-08-03 1:10 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-dev
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since coreutils provides 'readlink' now, do we still need debianutils ? the
files it currently provides are:
/bin/tempfile
/bin/mktemp
/bin/run-parts
/usr/sbin/savelog
/usr/sbin/mkboot
/sbin/installkernel
i know we used 'readlink' in portage and in baselayout, but since coreutils
takes care of that, why not punt this pkg ?
only thing i can think of is maybe 'tempfile' and 'mktemp' are used, but i
could always put together some small bashscripts to add to baselayout to take
care of those ...
-mike
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* Re: [gentoo-dev] removing debianutils from profiles
2003-08-03 1:10 [gentoo-dev] removing debianutils from profiles Mike Frysinger
@ 2003-08-03 10:20 ` Paul de Vrieze
2003-08-04 11:32 ` Chris Gianelloni
2003-08-03 14:56 ` Chris Gianelloni
2003-08-03 15:17 ` Martin Schlemmer
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From: Paul de Vrieze @ 2003-08-03 10:20 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-dev
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On Sunday 03 August 2003 03:10, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> since coreutils provides 'readlink' now, do we still need debianutils ?
> the files it currently provides are:
> /bin/tempfile
> /bin/mktemp
> /bin/run-parts
> /usr/sbin/savelog
> /usr/sbin/mkboot
> /sbin/installkernel
> i know we used 'readlink' in portage and in baselayout, but since coreutils
> takes care of that, why not punt this pkg ?
> only thing i can think of is maybe 'tempfile' and 'mktemp' are used, but i
> could always put together some small bashscripts to add to baselayout to
> take care of those ...
> -mike
I don't think a bashscript is useful for mktemp. It is basically a wrapper
around a libc function (mkstemp). There are various security considerations
with mktemp, so hacking together one in bash is probably not smart. I
personally use that command in some of my scripts so I think the command
should stay. I do not know though, whether any part of system uses it.
Paul
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* Re: [gentoo-dev] removing debianutils from profiles
2003-08-03 1:10 [gentoo-dev] removing debianutils from profiles Mike Frysinger
2003-08-03 10:20 ` Paul de Vrieze
@ 2003-08-03 14:56 ` Chris Gianelloni
2003-08-03 15:17 ` Martin Schlemmer
2 siblings, 0 replies; 7+ messages in thread
From: Chris Gianelloni @ 2003-08-03 14:56 UTC (permalink / raw
To: vapier; +Cc: gentoo-dev
On Sat, 2003-08-02 at 21:10, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> /bin/tempfile
> /bin/mktemp
> i know we used 'readlink' in portage and in baselayout, but since coreutils
> takes care of that, why not punt this pkg ?
> only thing i can think of is maybe 'tempfile' and 'mktemp' are used, but i
> could always put together some small bashscripts to add to baselayout to take
> care of those ...
I know I have used them in a couple things, so they definitely need to
be added.
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Chris Gianelloni
Developer, Gentoo Linux
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* Re: [gentoo-dev] removing debianutils from profiles
2003-08-03 1:10 [gentoo-dev] removing debianutils from profiles Mike Frysinger
2003-08-03 10:20 ` Paul de Vrieze
2003-08-03 14:56 ` Chris Gianelloni
@ 2003-08-03 15:17 ` Martin Schlemmer
2 siblings, 0 replies; 7+ messages in thread
From: Martin Schlemmer @ 2003-08-03 15:17 UTC (permalink / raw
To: vapier; +Cc: Gentoo-Dev
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On Sun, 2003-08-03 at 03:10, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> since coreutils provides 'readlink' now, do we still need debianutils ? the
> files it currently provides are:
> /bin/tempfile
> /bin/mktemp
> /bin/run-parts
> /usr/sbin/savelog
> /usr/sbin/mkboot
> /sbin/installkernel
> i know we used 'readlink' in portage and in baselayout, but since coreutils
> takes care of that, why not punt this pkg ?
> only thing i can think of is maybe 'tempfile' and 'mktemp' are used, but i
> could always put together some small bashscripts to add to baselayout to take
> care of those ...
We should just removed the readlink it installs ... mkboot,
installkernel, run-parts, savelog is all used by various things.
I do not recommend on removing it, or vote to do so.
Regards,
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Martin Schlemmer
Gentoo Linux Developer, Desktop/System Team Developer
Cape Town, South Africa
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* Re: [gentoo-dev] removing debianutils from profiles
2003-08-03 10:20 ` Paul de Vrieze
@ 2003-08-04 11:32 ` Chris Gianelloni
2003-08-04 12:28 ` Georgi Georgiev
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From: Chris Gianelloni @ 2003-08-04 11:32 UTC (permalink / raw
To: Paul de Vrieze; +Cc: gentoo-dev
On Sun, 2003-08-03 at 06:20, Paul de Vrieze wrote:
> should stay. I do not know though, whether any part of system uses it.
The nvidia-kernel drivers use them, so I think that is reason enough to
keep mktemp.
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Chris Gianelloni
Developer, Gentoo Linux
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* Re: [gentoo-dev] removing debianutils from profiles
2003-08-04 11:32 ` Chris Gianelloni
@ 2003-08-04 12:28 ` Georgi Georgiev
2003-08-04 17:12 ` Martin Schlemmer
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From: Georgi Georgiev @ 2003-08-04 12:28 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-dev
On 04/08/2003 at 07:32:24(-0400), Chris Gianelloni used 0.3K just to say:
> On Sun, 2003-08-03 at 06:20, Paul de Vrieze wrote:
> > should stay. I do not know though, whether any part of system uses it.
>
> The nvidia-kernel drivers use them, so I think that is reason enough to
> keep mktemp.
This is not a part of the system is it?
nvidia-kernel can depend on the ebuild instead.
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* Re: [gentoo-dev] removing debianutils from profiles
2003-08-04 12:28 ` Georgi Georgiev
@ 2003-08-04 17:12 ` Martin Schlemmer
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From: Martin Schlemmer @ 2003-08-04 17:12 UTC (permalink / raw
To: Georgi Georgiev; +Cc: Gentoo-Dev
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On Mon, 2003-08-04 at 14:28, Georgi Georgiev wrote:
> On 04/08/2003 at 07:32:24(-0400), Chris Gianelloni used 0.3K just to say:
> > On Sun, 2003-08-03 at 06:20, Paul de Vrieze wrote:
> > > should stay. I do not know though, whether any part of system uses it.
> >
> > The nvidia-kernel drivers use them, so I think that is reason enough to
> > keep mktemp.
>
> This is not a part of the system is it?
> nvidia-kernel can depend on the ebuild instead.
No, but the cron system depend on this, as well as a lot of other
things, and the overhead is really so small, that I cannot see why
to remove it. Also, it is used by the kernel if you call 'make install'
...
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Martin Schlemmer
Gentoo Linux Developer, Desktop/System Team Developer
Cape Town, South Africa
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