Bug 2347539 - Missing binaries in inotify-tools
Summary: Missing binaries in inotify-tools
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Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: Fedora EPEL
Classification: Fedora
Component: inotify-tools
Version: epel9
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Mark McKinstry
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Reported: 2025-02-25 16:40 UTC by benjamin.mare
Modified: 2025-02-25 16:40 UTC (History)
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Description benjamin.mare 2025-02-25 16:40:41 UTC
Description of problem:
I found that the inotify-tools package proposed in the EPEL (9 & 8) repository is missing 2 binaries: fsnotifywait and fsnotifywatch.
Those 2 binaries allow to use fanotify(7) interface instead of inotify(7) interface

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
Epel 9
Epel 8

How reproducible:
Just needs to install the inotify-tools proposed by the epel repository and search for fsnotifywait or fsnotifywatch binaries.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. install `dnf install epel-release`
2. install the inotify tool from this repository `dnf install inotify-tools`
3. see fsnotifywait and fsnotifywatch are still referenced in the man `man inotifywait` or `man inotifywatch`.
4. Search for the missing binaries, for example `find / -type f -name fsnotifywait` and `find / -type f -name fsnotifywatch`, or with `which fsnotifywait`.

Actual results:
$ which fsnotifywait
/usr/bin/which: no fsnotifywait in (/root/.local/bin:/root/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/opt/puppetlabs/bin)

Expected results:
The binaries should be in `/usr/bin/`, so:
$ which fsnotifywait
/usr/bin/fsnotifywait


Additional info:
When I tried to manually compile inotify-tools (following this documentation: https://github.com/inotify-tools/inotify-tools/wiki#everyone-else), it automatically creates the fsnotifywait and fsnotifywatch binaries.


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