Debian bug report logs - #1806, boring messages

Subject: Bug#1806: genksyms misplaced?
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Packages: devel/source, base/modules

Problem: base/modules installs genksyms as `/usr/bin/genksyms',
         kernel Makefile[?]  looks for `/sbin/genksyms'.

From: iwj10@thor.cam.ac.uk (Ian Jackson)
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Subject: Bug#1806: Acknowledgement (was: genksyms misplaced?)
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Subject: Bug#1806: genksyms misplaced?
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Bill Hogan writes:

>Packages: devel/source, base/modules

Versions?

>Problem: base/modules installs genksyms as `/usr/bin/genksyms',
>         kernel Makefile[?]  looks for `/sbin/genksyms'.

Wasn't this reported ages ago?  I can't find anything in the bug
report logs, however.

genksyms ought to be in /usr/bin, not /sbin; you don't need before
you've mounted /usr, and it's perfectly possible that
non-administrative users might want to use it e.g. when compiling
their own kernel.

The Makefiles should just look for it as `genksyms' without specifying
a path at all.

ttfn/rjk

From: iwj10@thor.cam.ac.uk (Ian Jackson)
To: Richard Kettlewell <richard@elmail.co.uk>
Subject: Bug#1806: Info received (was Bug#1806: genksyms misplaced?)
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