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