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FS#28031 - [coreutils]: Kindly ln -s /bin/install /usr/bin

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Andreas Krüger (kardech) - Saturday, 21 January 2012, 16:44 GMT
Last edited by Allan McRae (Allan) - Saturday, 21 January 2012, 21:36 GMT
Task Type Feature Request
Category Packages: Core
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture All
Severity Medium
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description:

The "install" programm is often installed and often expected
as /usr/bin/install . The Arch package has decided to
provide it as /bin/install . I have an installation task
failing on me as it cannot find /usr/bin/install.

Kindly provide a symbolic link /usr/bin/install
pointing to /bin/install .


Additional info:
* coreutils 8.15-1

Steps to reproduce:

Easy way:

/usr/bin/install --version

Hard way:

Install ruby and rvm, then run

rvm 1.9.2 do gem install rails

Error message seen:

make: /usr/bin/install: Command not found

Workaround:

sudo ln -s /bin/install /usr/bin

Best regards, and thank you for the good job you do!
This task depends upon

Closed by  Allan McRae (Allan)
Saturday, 21 January 2012, 21:36 GMT
Reason for closing:  Won't fix
Comment by Dave Reisner (falconindy) - Saturday, 21 January 2012, 19:13 GMT
Only broken programs hardcode binary locations, rather than relying on the PATH environment variable and path lookups. Fix the problem where it exists (hint: not in coreutils).

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