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On Sunday 03 August 2003 03:10, Mike Frysinger wrote: |
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> since coreutils provides 'readlink' now, do we still need debianutils ? |
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> the files it currently provides are: |
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> /bin/tempfile |
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> /bin/mktemp |
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> /bin/run-parts |
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> /usr/sbin/savelog |
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> /usr/sbin/mkboot |
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> /sbin/installkernel |
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> i know we used 'readlink' in portage and in baselayout, but since coreutils |
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> takes care of that, why not punt this pkg ? |
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> only thing i can think of is maybe 'tempfile' and 'mktemp' are used, but i |
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> could always put together some small bashscripts to add to baselayout to |
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> take care of those ... |
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> -mike |
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I don't think a bashscript is useful for mktemp. It is basically a wrapper |
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around a libc function (mkstemp). There are various security considerations |
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with mktemp, so hacking together one in bash is probably not smart. I |
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personally use that command in some of my scripts so I think the command |
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should stay. I do not know though, whether any part of system uses it. |
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Paul |
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