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Szerző: Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
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Tárgy: [DNG] yet another case of silly Lennartism :p [Fwd: Our build system may be broken: /bin vs /usr/bin]

just for your amusement ...


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Subject: Our build system may be broken: /bin vs /usr/bin
Resent-Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2018 15:01:46 +0000 (UTC)
Resent-From: debian-devel@???
Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2018 08:55:31 -0600
From: Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@???>
To: Debian Developers <debian-devel@???>
CC: Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@???>



tl;dr: We may be messing up /bin and /usr/bin on some platforms


Sorry for the alarming headline but #913982 was filed, indepedently
corrobated and simultaneously discovered by upstream.

GNU R has long been relying on sed, tar, bzip2, ... and many more base
tools. No issues there. Generally looked for in /bin and found there.

Starting with binary rebuild r-base_3.5.1-1+b2 however, /usr/bin/* path
crept
in while the binaries where still in the wrong place. It looked like a
one-off so I uploaded 3.5.1-2 which built fine for me on amd64 ...but
apparently is already borked again on i386.

I am at bit of loss here. Any ideas?

Please CC me on replies. I will keep a look at the list archive too.

Cheers, Dirk

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