[WBEL-devel] /bin/su and /usr/bin/su

[Pasi Pirhonen]

Hi,


On Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 09:34:18PM -0600, Charles Lacour wrote:
> Since the web page still listed it as a problem, I'm reporting what I've found 
> out so far about "su" being in both /bin and /usr/bin.
> 
> The problem is in the coreutils-4.5.3-26.i386.rpm file. That is the only file 
> on WBEL that references either of those files, and it lists both.
> 
> The file list of WB's coreutils rpm and Red Hat AS 3.0 coreutils rpm differ 
> only by the addition of /usr/bin/su to WB's. (WB has that one file added. 
> Otherwise, they're identical.)
> 
> What's odd is that the source rpms are identical. That means it pretty much 
> has to be either the environment it was compiled in, or the flags it was 
> compiled with.
> 
> John, what did you use to compile that package? (I'm assuming rpmbuild, but I 
> don't know what parameters you passed it, or if you edited any of the config 
> files.)
> 


[root@ml370 RPMS]# ls -l /bin/su
-rwsr-xr-x    1 root     root        44980 Nov 18 13:04 /bin/su
[root@ml370 RPMS]# ls -l /usr/bin/su
-r-sr-xr-x    1 root     root        44980 Nov 18 13:04 /usr/bin/su
[root@ml370 RPMS]# rpm -qf /usr/bin/su
coreutils-4.5.3-26
[root@ml370 RPMS]# rpm -iUvh --force coreutils-4.5.3-26.i386.rpm
Preparing...                ###########################################
[100%]
   1:coreutils              ###########################################
[100%]
[root@ml370 RPMS]# mv coreutils-4.5.3-26.i386.rpm DONE/
[root@ml370 RPMS]# rpm -qf /usr/bin/su
file /usr/bin/su is not owned by any package
[root@ml370 RPMS]# ls -l /usr/bin/su
-r-sr-xr-x    1 root     root        44980 Nov 18 13:04 /usr/bin/su
[root@ml370 RPMS]# ls -l /bin/su
-rwsr-xr-x    1 root     root        44976 Dec  8 19:06 /bin/su


So there must have been so problems with build process.
this one is WBEL RC2 clean  install where i have been rebuilding all the
SRPMS once again. The package i am installing, is the one i have
rebuilt myself.


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