libera/#devuan-dev/ Thursday, 2022-04-07

bb|hcbTrue. One of the problems is that dpkg does not know the proper location. e.g. binary is installed as /bin/ls but /bin is symlink to /usr/bin and ls is /usr/bin/ls but dpkg still thinks that it is /bin/ls which would allow another package to try to install /usr/bin/ls...00:07
onefangI installed Chimaera using mmdebstrap (similar to debootstrap), no usr merging, until I installed their usrmerge script and actually ran it.  rkhunter refused to run coz two binaries where in the "wrong" place, but everything else seemed to run fine.  I'm still testing things, including installing it all over and over.  Coz I'm perfecting the install script.03:13
onefangOops, rkhunter refused to run in the non merged version I meant.03:14
rrqseems rkhunter is buggy then03:35
onefangYeah, I'm surprised it only complained about two.  Not much in the way of malware checkers in Linux though.03:39
rrqto be clear, rkhunter reduses to run because it looks in the wrong place for two binaries (/bin/egrep and /bin/fgrep) but then runs following a "touch /usr/bin/{e,f}grep"03:55
rrqreduses=refuses03:55
onefangAh I didn't try touching them, just tried running the usrmerge script.03:56
rrqmmm possibly "grep" wasn't installed?03:57
onefangThey was installed, I checked that.03:57
rrqstrange. after "usrmerge" there should have been two /usr/bin/{e,f}grep for rkhunter to sniff at03:58
onefangOK, to be clear, unmerged rkhunter fails, merged rkhunter works.  The usrmerge script just sets up symlinks from /bin -> /usr/bin, and other similar symlinks.04:01
rrqright. yes rkhunter mistakenly wants egrep and fgrep in /usr/bin04:01
onefangSo pre merge rkhunter can't find /usr/bin/egrep, coz it's in /bin/egrep, but post merge it can.04:02
onefangPersonally I have no objection to usr merging.  It's historical cruft, and I tend to prefer removing historical cruft.  There's enough people vehemently opposed to the merge that unmerged will get lots of testing.  I don't want to have to test EVERYTHING twice, so I'm just gonna test the merged version.  Coz once I have my Chimaera install script polished, I'll use it to upgrade two desktops and three04:06
onefangservers.  So lots of stuff needs testing.04:06
LeePenIs there a pad set up for the meet?10:57
bgstack15not yet, let me do that, LeePen15:29
bgstack15Devuan meet today, at 20:30 UTC. Pad is here: https://pad.dyne.org/code/#/2/code/edit/rJ2fNkYKerstQpDfJY0rKMQu/15:32
LeePenThanks17:34

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