From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Marius Bakke <mbakke@fastmail.com>
Cc: 26730@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#26730: [PATCH] Fix bzip2 utilities
Date: Tue, 09 May 2017 12:18:24 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87tw4u8han.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87mvaqyoze.fsf@fastmail.com> (Marius Bakke's message of "Sat, 06 May 2017 17:38:45 +0200")
Marius Bakke <mbakke@fastmail.com> skribis:
> Christopher Baines <mail@cbaines.net> writes:
>
>> The bzip2 package includes wrappers around diff, grep and less/more.
>> These shell scripts currently include /usr/bin (and sometimes /bin) on
>> the PATH, and therefore fail if any of the commands that they rely on
>> cannot be found.
>>
>> By substituting /usr/bin (and /bin) for the appropriate package paths,
>> these scripts work much more reliably.
>
> Most of these dependencies are available in environments where the bz*
> tools will be executed. I think it would be better to simply remove the
> absolute /usr/bin and /bin references such that grep, sed etc
> invocations are picked up from PATH instead.
Agreed. Otherwise we could end up retaining references to the bootstrap
Bash and Coreutils, for instance (remember that bzip2 is built early on,
in (gnu packages commencement)).
Ludo’.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-05-09 10:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-05-01 9:49 bug#26730: [PATCH] Fix bzip2 utilities Christopher Baines
2017-05-01 10:10 ` bug#26730: [PATCH 1/2] gnu: bzip2: Use 'modify-phases' syntax Christopher Baines
2017-05-01 10:10 ` bug#26730: [PATCH 2/2] gnu: bzip2: Patch bzip2 utilities Christopher Baines
2017-05-15 15:43 ` bug#26730: [PATCH 1/2] gnu: bzip2: Use 'modify-phases' syntax Marius Bakke
2017-05-06 15:38 ` bug#26730: [PATCH] Fix bzip2 utilities Marius Bakke
2017-05-09 10:18 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2017-05-15 6:08 ` Christopher Baines
2017-05-15 6:04 ` bug#26730: [PATCH] gnu: bzip2: Patch " Christopher Baines
2017-05-15 6:07 ` Christopher Baines
2017-05-15 15:46 ` Marius Bakke
2017-05-16 20:41 ` Christopher Baines
2017-05-17 14:58 ` Marius Bakke
2017-05-18 18:46 ` Christopher Baines
2017-05-16 20:36 ` bug#26730: [PATCH 1/3] gnu: bzip2: Use 'modify-phases' syntax Christopher Baines
2017-05-16 20:36 ` bug#26730: [PATCH 2/3] gnu: bzip2: Add explicit return value for 2 phases Christopher Baines
2017-05-16 20:36 ` bug#26730: [PATCH 3/3] gnu: bzip2: Patch bzip2 utilities Christopher Baines
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
List information: https://guix.gnu.org/
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=87tw4u8han.fsf@gnu.org \
--to=ludo@gnu.org \
--cc=26730@debbugs.gnu.org \
--cc=mbakke@fastmail.com \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
Code repositories for project(s) associated with this public inbox
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for read-only IMAP folder(s) and NNTP newsgroup(s).