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skarnet / execline

The execline scripting language
https://skarnet.org/software/execline/
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Fedora clashes in /usr/bin #2

Closed keithy closed 2 years ago

keithy commented 4 years ago

I would like to us execline in Fedora, and Fedora CoreOS attempting to install using: https://fedora.pkgs.org/31/rpm-sphere-x86_64/execline-devel-2.3.0.4-7.1.x86_64.rpm.html

error: Checkout execline-2.3.0.4-7.1.x86_64: Hardlinking 9c/8aa019367d3a8fa2545da722c3c4e2aabc9fd35c1e9a46cc33f1342f781454.file to cd: File exists

Would it be preferable to use an alternative path?

skarnet commented 4 years ago

It means this rpm has not been packaged correctly. It is also obsolete: the current version of execline is 2.5.3.0. My suggestion is not to use the rpm and install execline manually instead. You can use the --enable-pedantic-posix option to get a fully POSIX-compliant cd binary from execline, and use it as /usr/bin/cd or /bin/cd while putting the existing (useless) /usr/bin/cd from Fedora out of the way.

skarnet commented 2 years ago

Closing this.