[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#913729: Bug#913729: wrong modinfo path if compiled on merged-usr system and executed on unmerged system

[Simon McVittie]

On Wed, 14 Nov 2018 at 13:45:59 +0100, Michael Biebl wrote:
> Am 14.11.18 um 13:18 schrieb Michael Biebl:
> > I.e. AC_PATH_PROG return the wrong path when built in a merged-usr
> > system.
> > I suspect that this particular problem is very widespread, so i was
> > wondering if we couldn't just address this once in the AC_PATH_PROG [1]
> > macro, by preferring /bin/ over /usr/bin. Atm, it searches PATH, which
> > is usually set to
> > PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
> 
> As a short-term fix, I consider applying
> 
> --- a/debian/rules
> +++ b/debian/rules
> @@ -10,6 +10,10 @@ override_dh_autoreconf:
> 
>  override_dh_auto_configure:
>         dh_auto_configure -- \
> +               MODINFO=/sbin/modinfo \
> +               MODPROBE=/sbin/modprobe \
> +               RMMOD=/sbin/rmmod \
> +               SYSCTL=/sbin/sysctl \
>                 --with-systemd-unitdir=/lib/systemd/system \
>                 --with-nft=/usr/sbin/nft \
>                 --with-iptables=/sbin/iptables \
> 
> Would you consider this a proper (short term) fix?

I would. That's the equivalent of what I've been suggesting for other
packages.

    smcv