From 0887b6af81781ae74f0a34c59f32ed098fa199dc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Marius Bakke <mbakke@fastmail.com>
Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2018 21:41:13 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] gnu: net-tools: Move 'ifconfig' to "/sbin".

* gnu/packages/linux.scm (net-tools)[arguments]: In
REMOVE-REDUNDANT-COMMANDS-PHASE, use rename-file on ifconfig.
---
 gnu/packages/linux.scm | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/gnu/packages/linux.scm b/gnu/packages/linux.scm
index 875f11062..916309b79 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/linux.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/linux.scm
@@ -1286,6 +1286,11 @@ inadequately in modern network environments, and both should be deprecated.")
                                        '("^hostname"
                                          "^(yp|nis|dns)?domainname"))))
                  (for-each delete-file dup)
+                 ;; ifconfig from net-tools is somewhat incompatible with
+                 ;; GNU ifconfig, so we keep it around.  Move it to "/sbin"
+                 ;; to prevent conflict in %base-packages.
+                 (rename-file (string-append out "/bin/ifconfig")
+                              (string-append out "/sbin/ifconfig"))
                  #t))))
          ;; Binaries that depend on libnet-tools.a don't declare that
          ;; dependency, making it parallel-unsafe.
-- 
2.16.2