[Pkg-xfce-devel] Fixing bug 374618

[Simon Huggins]

On Wed, Jul 26, 2006 at 02:28:34PM +0200, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-07-26 at 13:51 +0200, Michael Banck wrote:
> > On Sat, Jul 22, 2006 at 04:03:24PM +0200, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote:
> > > Cyril Brulebois told me on irc that /usr was a symlink on . so maybe
> > > everything will work ?
> > New installation of Debian GNU/Hurd typically do not have /usr->.
> > symlink anymore, but we support users who have it.
> Ok so it's not really a stable situation. What should we do, then ?
> Will /usr/bin/kill be moved to /bin/kill on hurd ?

I spoke to Michael Banck on IRC.  It seems that kill is usually in
/usr/bin/kill on Hurd 

He's filed #380387 about moving kill to /usr/bin but until then
something like:
KILL=/bin/kill
if [ ! -x $KILL ]; then
	# Probably Hurd
	KILL=/usr/bin/kill
fi

in every postinst that uses kill should be ok shouldn't it? (and then
substituing /bin/kill for $KILL of course.

If anyone has a nicer way or agrees/disagrees then do speak up.

Simon.

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