Subject: Re: bin/36015 (Removal of libexec/uucpd leaves users of uucp over tcp with no equivalent)
To: Jim Bernard <jbernard@mines.edu>
From: Christos Zoulas <christos@zoulas.com>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 03/16/2007 13:53:23
On Mar 15,  5:45pm, jbernard@mines.edu (Jim Bernard) wrote:
-- Subject: Re: bin/36015 (Removal of libexec/uucpd leaves users of uucp over

| On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 10:35:02PM +0000, Jim Bernard wrote:
| > The following reply was made to PR bin/36015; it has been noted by GNATS.
| > 
| >  But, there's still one catch:
| >  
| >    net/uucp installs uucico in /usr/pkg/sbin/uucico (really
| >      ${PREFIX}/sbin/uucico), but files/uucpd/pathnames.h tells uucpd
| >      to look for it in /usr/libexec/uucp/uucico.  Also, uucpd requires
| >      the shell to match the path to uucico, and the path is hard
| >      coded in the man page as /usr/libexec/uucp/uucico, so the man
| >      page should be changed if the path is changed.  I'm not sure if
| >      there's any easy way to change the path in a way that respects
| >      ${PREFIX} without using a configure script.
| 
|   Actually, there's another catch: it installs rmail and uucpd in /,
| and the docs in /usr/share/man/....  And the installation fails formally
| because the PLIST check doesn't find the files in the expected places
| under /usr/pkg.

I fixed it... Thanks,

christos