Re: djblinux?

[email protected] (Paul Jarc) Tue, 24 Jun 2003 15:45:08 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.comp.djb.package
Organization What did you have in mind? A short, blunt, human pyramid?
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Stefan Karrmann <[email protected]> wrote:
> Paul Jarc (Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 01:35:23PM -0400):
>> Russell Nelson <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> what about all the commands, like /bin/rm, etc?  GNU tools?
>>
>> Yes, in my case.
>> lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     default         1 Jun 17 10:51 /usr -> .
>> lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     default         7 Jun 17 10:51 /bin -> command
>> lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     default        34 Jan 23 14:51 /command/rm -> /package/misc/spf/coreutils/bin/rm
>
> Why not breaking backward compatibility?  Create:
> lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     default         1 Jun 17 10:51 /usr -> usr
> lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     default         7 Jun 17 10:51 /bin -> bin
> lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     default         7 Jun 17 10:51 /var -> var

What do you mean?  A symlink that points to itself is broken.

> and use
> lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     default        34 Jan 23 14:51 /command/rm -> /package/misc/spf/coreutils/bin/rm
>
> if you can register it globally at <http://cr.yp.to/slashcommand/list.html>.

I think anything listed in <URL:http://cr.yp.to/slashcommand/used>
probably cannot be registered except by the package maintainers
themselves.  I cannot register /command/bash, but the bash maintainer
can.  For traditional commands with many different implementations,
like rm, perhaps no one can register them.


paul