[WBEL-devel] coreutils:file differences between RHEL and WB

[John Morris]

On Sun, 30 Nov 2003, David E. Cox wrote:

> The following file differences exit between whitebox and redhat.  Looks
> like redhat just has the "su" command installed under /bin, while
> building from source gets the command installed twice, with slightly
> different permissions.  Probably not critical, but it's an important
> package for anything fishy...

Curious.  I'm looking in the .spec for clues and see this as the most 
recent changlog entry:

%changelog
* Tue Aug 12 2003 Tim Waugh <twaugh@redhat.com> 4.5.3-26
- Made su use pam again (oops).
- Fixed another i18n bug causing sort --month-sort to fail.
- Don't run dubious stty test, since it fails when backgrounded
  (bug #102033).


and this line:

# su
install -m 4755 src/su $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/bin

It appears they are explicitly making sure su in in /bin, which makes
sense since that is where it has traditionally been.  But why is it also
appearing in /usr/bin now and even more importantly, didn't do it when
they built it for RHEL3 or taroon-beta.  As for the substantial difference 
in file size, wierd but since mine is the shorter I'm not sure if I should 
be worried.

Any suggestions as to a fix welcome, I'm just a buildmonkey and don't 
really want to go trashing around in something as vital as coreutils if I 
can help it.


> Whitebox RC1: coreutils-4.5.3-26.i386.rpm
>  -rwsr-xr-x    1 root    root            44980 Oct 26 20:30 /bin/su
>  -r-sr-xr-x    1 root    root            44980 Oct 26 20:30 /usr/bin/su
>  
>  
> RedHat 3-WS: coreutils-4.5.3-26.i386.rpm
>  -rwsr-xr-x    1 root    root            47522 Aug 12 11:34 /bin/su
> 
> 

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