GNU bug report logs - #35008
sendmail package installs in wrong path

Previous Next

To add a comment to this bug, you must first unarchive it, by sending
a message to control AT debbugs.gnu.org, with unarchive 35008 in the body.
You can then email your comments to 35008 AT debbugs.gnu.org in the normal way.

Toggle the display of automated, internal messages from the tracker.

Message #5 received at submit <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Brant Gardner <brantcgardner <at> brantware.com>
To: bug-guix <at> gnu.org
Subject: sendmail package installs in wrong path
Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2019 14:18:27 -0500

[Message part 1 (text/plain, inline)]

Good afternoon;

Installing sendmail package as:

(packages (cons* nss-certs         ;for HTTPS access
                 ; (several other packages here)
                 sendmail
                 %base-packages))

Results in sendmail installing in this location:

/gnu/store/b0gmd1ac6np7zgb8hvbfgy45b0haz8xg-sendmail-8.15.2/usr/sbin/sendmail

But no links for sendmail show up under any user's profile, and asking on #guix seems to
indicate that sendmail should install under /usr/bin, not /usr/sbin which may be the issue.

Thank you,

-- 
Brant Gardner

[signature.asc (application/pgp-signature, inline)]

Message #8 received at 35008 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Danny Milosavljevic <dannym <at> scratchpost.org>
To: 35008 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Cc: Brant Gardner <brantcgardner <at> brantware.com>
Subject: Re: bug#35008: sendmail package installs in wrong path
Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2019 20:50:22 +0100

[Message part 1 (text/plain, inline)]

Hi,

On Tue, 26 Mar 2019 14:18:27 -0500
Brant Gardner <brantcgardner <at> brantware.com> wrote:

> Good afternoon;
> 
> Installing sendmail package as:
> 
> (packages (cons* nss-certs         ;for HTTPS access
>                  ; (several other packages here)
>                  sendmail
>                  %base-packages))
> 
> Results in sendmail installing in this location:
> 
> /gnu/store/b0gmd1ac6np7zgb8hvbfgy45b0haz8xg-sendmail-8.15.2/usr/sbin/sendmail
> 
> But no links for sendmail show up under any user's profile, and asking on #guix seems to
> indicate that sendmail should install under /usr/bin, not /usr/sbin which may be the issue.

What's more important is that it shouldn't have "/usr" (in a way,
"/gnu/store/b0gmd1ac6np7zgb8hvbfgy45b0haz8xg-sendmail-8.15.2" is "/usr" already).

./devtools/M4/UNIX/defines.m4 seems to contain a lot of path definitions but we
don't patch them.  That is definitely incorrect.

confMBINDIR seems to be the variable used for installation (see sendmail/Makefile.m4).

(I have no idea what ${M`'BINDIR}, used in there, does)

As I don't know sendmail (always been a postfix / qmail user), I can't help more than that,
but maybe someone else can adapt and test it.

[Message part 2 (application/pgp-signature, inline)]

Previous Next

GNU bug tracking system
Copyright (C) 1999 Darren O. Benham, 1997,2003 nCipher Corporation Ltd, 1994-97 Ian Jackson.