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Re: BUG: /sbin in util-linux package
>> Also in the package is the /usr/sbin directory with nothing in it.
>
> That's a flaw in the source's 'make install', which is not automake based.
> The util-linux source provides several /usr/sbin commands as well, but
> none of them are relevant to Cygwin and are not built; the makefiles
> create this directory anyway, regardless if anything is installed into it.
Yaakov, you are not allowed to patch the Makefile to avoid this? I ask this
sincere question because I have just become a package maintainer. If this
is a rule, I want to avoid breaking it.
Best,
Bryan
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