Re: Bug: /usr/local/bin/git-daemon starts /usr/sbin/git-upload-pack?

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Jul 9, 2008, 21:14 UTC
Message-ID: <7vlk0a7obl.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <200807092220.10655.J.Wielemaker@uva.nl>

Jan Wielemaker <J.Wielemaker@uva.nl> writes:

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> After upgrade to SuSE 11.0 I was forced to update GIT (changed libcurl).
> I did (with some trickery) a pull of the latest git and built it using
> make prefix=/usr/local ..., to find out that /usr/local/bin/git-daemon
> starts /usr/sbin/git-upload-pack.
>
> After creating a symlink to /usr/local/bin/git-upload-pack all works fine
> again, but I guess this is a mistake?

I think this is a distro issue.

Pre-1.6.0 git installs git-everything in $(bindir) and knows things are there. Current 'master' we are preparing for 1.6.0 instead installs git-mostofthem in $(prefix)/libexec/git-core and git-someofthem in $(bindir); our executables know which binaries are installed in $(bindir) and which ones are installed in $(prefix)/libexec/git-core.

The point is we never install $anywhere/sbin unless the person who is building explicitly does so (either by futzing the Makefile or giving bindir=$somewhere from the command line of "make"). The reason your /usr/local/bin/git-daemon (we do not know who compiled it and how) spawns something in /usr/sbin is not our doing. Find out who configured it and why, and more importantly, what _other_ changes are made in the build and installation procedure to support that change in location.