Subject: Re: bin/36015 (Removal of libexec/uucpd leaves users of uucp over tcp with no equivalent)
To: None <gnats-admin@NetBSD.org, netbsd-bugs@NetBSD.org>
From: Jim Bernard <jbernard@mines.edu>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 03/15/2007 17:45:20
On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 10:35:02PM +0000, Jim Bernard wrote:
> The following reply was made to PR bin/36015; it has been noted by GNATS.
> 
>  But, there's still one catch:
>  
>    net/uucp installs uucico in /usr/pkg/sbin/uucico (really
>      ${PREFIX}/sbin/uucico), but files/uucpd/pathnames.h tells uucpd
>      to look for it in /usr/libexec/uucp/uucico.  Also, uucpd requires
>      the shell to match the path to uucico, and the path is hard
>      coded in the man page as /usr/libexec/uucp/uucico, so the man
>      page should be changed if the path is changed.  I'm not sure if
>      there's any easy way to change the path in a way that respects
>      ${PREFIX} without using a configure script.

  Actually, there's another catch: it installs rmail and uucpd in /,
and the docs in /usr/share/man/....  And the installation fails formally
because the PLIST check doesn't find the files in the expected places
under /usr/pkg.