Bug 2338680 - chkrootkit fails to install due to use of consolehelper, incompatible with /sbin merge
Summary: chkrootkit fails to install due to use of consolehelper, incompatible with /s...
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: chkrootkit
Version: rawhide
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
unspecified
urgent
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Gwyn Ciesla
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks: 502765
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Reported: 2025-01-17 21:34 UTC by Adam Williamson
Modified: 2025-01-17 22:14 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2025-01-17 22:14:23 UTC
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Fedora Package Sources chkrootkit pull-request 1 0 None None None 2025-01-17 22:05:47 UTC

Description Adam Williamson 2025-01-17 21:34:05 UTC
Now https://fedoraproject.org/wiki//Changes/Unify_bin_and_sbin has landed in Rawhide, chkrootkit cannot be installed:

DEBUG util.py:459:  2025-01-17 06:22:56,075:   file /usr/sbin/chkrootkit conflicts between attempted installs of chkrootkit-0.57-7.fc41.x86_64 and chkrootkit-0.57-7.fc41.x86_64

This is because chkrootkit tries to have different %_sbindir/chkrootkit and %_bindir/chkrootkit files (for the purposes of consolehelper), but that's no longer possible as those are now the same directory.

Options are to just have the consolehelper wrapper in %_bindir and the 'real' executable in %_libdir (as it is now), and the consolehelper config point to to executable in %_libdir, or port to something newer like polkit (consolehelper was supposed to be deprecated 15 years ago - see https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=502765 ).

This breaks some compose deliverables - at least the Security spin.


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