On Fri, Feb 23, 2024 at 8:04 AM Sérgio Basto <sergio(a)serjux.com> wrote:
On Thu, 2024-02-22 at 20:36 -0500, Neal Gompa wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 22, 2024 at 8:32 PM Sérgio Basto <sergio(a)serjux.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > On Sun, 2024-01-28 at 20:14 +0000, Neal Gompa wrote:
> > > On Sun, Jan 28, 2024 at 7:54 PM Gary Buhrmaster
> > > <gary.buhrmaster(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > On Wed, Dec 20, 2023 at 7:54 PM Aoife Moloney
> > > > <amoloney(a)redhat.com>
> > > > wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > Wiki ->
> > > > >
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Unify_bin_and_sbin
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > > One additional item to consider is to review
> > > > the packager guidelines for use of /sbin
> > > > (and /usr/sbin) in additional locations from
> > > > those involved directly with installing binaries.
> > > >
> > > > In particular, I am thinking of the sysusers
> > > > examples where the use of /sbin/nologin
> > > > should, perhaps, be changed to /usr/bin/nologin.
> > > >
> > > > There are almost certainly other places
> > > > in the docs/guidelines.
> > > >
> > > > The documentation updates are always
> > > > the most annoying in my experience.
> > >
> > > We cannot change this without breaking backward compatibility.
> > > It'll
> > > have to stay that way until RHEL 9 falls out of support.
> >
> >
> > That is a good argument to not change it , why we need break
> > backward
> > compatibility ?
> >
>
> Nah. It just means we don't change any configuration or PATH stuff,
> which is fine because the sbin -> bin symlink will cover it.
>
I strongly disagree with you , we should avoid break backward
compatibility , unless we got a very good reason , which is not the
case
We're not breaking backward compatibility. We would install a symlink
pointing sbin to bin, which ensures any absolute path usage of
binaries formerly in sbin will still work.
> > is not sbin for super users and bin for users ?
> >
>
> No. This is one of those many myths about the "Unix FHS". And it
> doesn't even matter much these days anyway, since most newer
> administrative tools don't install in sbin anyway.
>
name it one , I'm not aware.
Sure: dnf.
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