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Re: athena-ttylogin-8.2-5
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Salvatore Valente)
Thu Oct 8 21:14:37 1998
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1998 21:14:09 -0400
To: nygren@MIT.EDU
Cc: histed@MIT.EDU, linux-dev@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: <199810082141.RAA11573@meep.lcs.mit.edu> (message from Erik
Nygren on Thu, 08 Oct 1998 17:41:30 EDT)
From: Salvatore Valente <svalente@MIT.EDU>
histed@mit.edu wrote:
athena-ttylogin-8.2-5 contains a symlink from /bin/athena/tcsh to
/usr/bin/tcsh, but the man page /usr/athena/man/man1/tcsh.1...
nygren@mit.edu responded:
It seems philosophically wrong for something in /bin to be a symlink
in /usr.
Erik, you're right, /bin/athena/tcsh should not be a symlink to
anything in /usr, and it's not. It's actually a symlink to ../tcsh.
(Minor detail.) But the point is that the Linux-Athena package uses
RedHat's tcsh but installs Athena's man page. It should either
install both Athena's executable and man page, or symlink both
RedHat's executable and man page. That is, we should do something to
make sure the executable and the man page are the same version.
Actually, the athena-ttylogin rpm does contain a real tcsh executable,
but then the post-installation script removes it and creates a
symlink. Oops. I'll fix the post-installation script.
Thanks for the bug report,
Sal.
