Bug 164124 - symlink required for mailx
Summary: symlink required for mailx
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
Classification: Red Hat
Component: redhat-lsb
Version: 4.0
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
: ---
Assignee: Leon Ho
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Blocks: 145007 156322
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2005-07-25 06:07 UTC by Lawrence Lim
Modified: 2014-03-26 00:52 UTC (History)
7 users (show)

Fixed In Version: RHEA-2005-649
Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2005-10-05 16:38:02 UTC
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Red Hat Product Errata RHEA-2005:649 0 qe-ready SHIPPED_LIVE redhat-lsb enhancement update 2005-10-05 04:00:00 UTC

Description Lawrence Lim 2005-07-25 06:07:09 UTC
Description of problem:
There is one failure in for lsbcmdchk. 

15|72 tetj-1.0 1|TCM Start
400|72 1 14:42:44|IC Start
200|72 1 14:42:44|Looking for command mailx
220|72 1 1 14:42:44|FAIL
410|72 1 14:42:44|IC End
80|72 0 14:42:44|TC End


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
redhat-lsb-3.0-3.EL.test

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.install lsbcmdchk
2.
3.
  
Actual results:
LSB failed to locate mailx

Expected results:
Zerro error

Additional info:
Same error on both x86 and x86_64 arch

Comment 1 Leon Ho 2005-07-25 07:09:20 UTC
(cc'ing mailx maintainer)

Would it be better to do it in mailx package to comply with LSB3?

This must be fixed to meet the requirement of LSB3, so putting this into
RHEL4U2Proposed.

Comment 2 Ivana Varekova 2005-07-26 11:51:22 UTC
Hello,
I think it is redhat-lsb problem. redhat-lsb misses require /bin/mail.
Ivana Varekova

Comment 3 Ivana Varekova 2005-07-26 12:38:32 UTC
But there is missed /bin/mailx symlink (mailx provided only /usr/mail) too. So
there should be created this symlink. I don't know whether this symlink should
be created by mailx package or by redhat-lsb package. redhat-lsb should ensure
LSB3 compatibility - so probably this package should create symlink (I
undarstand that LSB3 don't say anything about concreate packages but about whole
system). 
Ivana varekova

Comment 6 Leon Ho 2005-07-27 02:38:24 UTC
I think the underlying problem is if we are going to create the symlink in
redhat-lsb, by default redhat-lsb is not installed and the system will not
comply with LSB.


Comment 7 Bill Nottingham 2005-07-27 03:07:57 UTC
redhat-lsb is required to be installed for LSB conformance, so confining fixes
for LSB to redhat-lsb should be fine.

Comment 8 Leon Ho 2005-07-27 03:35:38 UTC
Does it create a problem when customers/partners create script/program to run in
LSB conformed system and by default expect mailx package contains /sbin/mailx? 
or 
Does customers have to install redhat-lsb if they want RHEL to be a LSB
conformed environment?

If it is latter then I am fine with that.

Comment 9 Bill Nottingham 2005-07-27 03:50:24 UTC
The latter - if they want a LSB environment, they need to install redhat-lsb.

Comment 10 Leon Ho 2005-07-29 06:25:43 UTC
redhat-lsb-3.0-5.EL should fix the problem. Waiting for QA ack before modifying
the status.

Comment 11 Lawrence Lim 2005-08-01 06:53:51 UTC
Tested redhat-lsb-3.0-5.EL with lsb-cmdchk on ppc64, confirmed this has been fixed.

10|72 mailx 16:53:28|TC Start
15|72 tetj-1.0 1|TCM Start
400|72 1 16:53:28|IC Start
200|72 1 16:53:28|Looking for command mailx
220|72 1 0 16:53:28|PASS
410|72 1 16:53:28|IC End
80|72 0 16:53:28|TC End


Comment 12 Tom Kincaid 2005-08-01 10:09:02 UTC
QE ACK

Comment 13 Leon Ho 2005-08-02 03:38:08 UTC
It is done. Changing to MODIFIED.

Comment 16 Red Hat Bugzilla 2005-10-05 16:38:02 UTC
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on the solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHEA-2005-649.html



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