[Nut-upsuser] package clash with 'rhino'

[Jim Klimov]

FWIW, NUT driver "rhino" is *old* (in Git since migration from SVN, so
pre-2006), so the path name is delivered for a couple of decades at least.

The https://github.com/mozilla/rhino is also well-established, about as old
as NUT.

So conflating the standard filesystem layout?... A case of "play stupid
games, win stupid prizes" I think.

It didi however bring up the conflict, which users could have had for a
while calling `rhino` as root or unprivileged user and getting wildly
different programs (based on who was first in PATH search).

I guess I do agree about (a dedicated location under) "libexec" being a
more proper name for NUT driver programs, if only to avoid such conflicts.

Jim


On Sun, May 18, 2025 at 4:09 PM Greg Troxel via Nut-upsuser <
nut-upsuser at alioth-lists.debian.net> wrote:

> Greg Troxel via Nut-upsuser <nut-upsuser at alioth-lists.debian.net>
> writes:
>
> > Eyal Lebedinsky <eyal at eyal.emu.id.au> writes:
> >
> >>> But seriously, it looks like you are running into a Fedora packaging
> >>> issue, not a nut issue.  I suggest you report this to Fedora.
> >>
> >> I raised it on the fedora users list and then created
> >>      https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2267022
> >> and it seems to progress from there.
> >
> > Great!
>
> Reading that, the issue is not really that bin and sbin were merged.
> That is just what exposed the issue.   The root cause is that the fedora
> nut  package puts drivers in one of bin or sbin when it should be in
> /usr/libexec or better yet /usr/libexec/nut.
>
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