/bin/grep? /usr/bin/grep?

AlterEgo · Veteran Joined: 25 Apr 2002 Posts: 1619

MOD EDIT This discussion branched off the Glorious Zetagrid Thread

plate · Posted: Fri Feb 28, 2003 12:41 pm Post subject:

Ok, let's look at this. I have four desktops (including a Mac) where grep is in /bin, and one notebook with grep in /usr/bin. The notebook installation is the only one I drew from a 1.4-rc2 stage3 tarball, everything else was either 1.4-rc1 (PPC: stage3, and Athlon: stage1) or upgraded from 1.2. Frankly, I didn't see any notice about a layout change between those two release candidates. Anybody able to shed some light on this?

AlterEgo · Veteran Joined: 25 Apr 2002 Posts: 1619

I have 2 boxes built using 1.4-rc1 and rc2. grep is in /usr/bin/grep
My third box has been built using 1.3-something. There, grep can be found in /bin/grep. All x86. Unfortunately I have no backups of the original source tarballs anymore.

plate · Posted: Fri Feb 28, 2003 1:14 pm Post subject:

Successfully added to my confusion, thanks.

You have an rc1 that listens to /usr/bin, my rc1 thinks /bin is where grep should be.

Anybody care to venture an explanation?

AlterEgo · Veteran Joined: 25 Apr 2002 Posts: 1619

grep 2.5.1: grep is in /usr/bin/grep
update to grep-2.5.1-r1; grep is in /bin/grep.

I guess it's got nothing to do with gentoo version numbers, but everything with a grep ebuild

plate · Posted: Fri Feb 28, 2003 2:37 pm Post subject:

This is completely beyond me...

All my machines get rsync'ed twice, three times a week. Four of them show:

pjp · Administrator Joined: 16 Apr 2002 Posts: 20067

Aren't /bin and /sbin for use when /usr isn't mounted? I'm on a 1.2 with grep only in /bin. Perhaps its an inconsistancy in the grep ebuild.
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plate · Posted: Fri Feb 28, 2003 3:01 pm Post subject:

The ChangeLog says:

MarkG · Posted: Fri Feb 28, 2003 4:58 pm Post subject:

I started from a gentoo build-ix86-1.0_rc6-r11 and have ended up with two greps. The 21st Apr 2002 is about the date I did a stage 1 build (PII 266 = slow), so the 9th Dec 2001 must be from the stage 1 tarball. I've just found the CD (coffee stains an all) so I could confirm this but I'd have to wash the CD first!

plate · Posted: Sat Mar 01, 2003 1:35 am Post subject:

Lovely. You're not the only one with coffee stains any longer, I've sprayed particles of my breakfast on the screen when I read your post. Anybody want to come over and carefully scrape bacon'n'eggs off the TFT screen? What an odd-yssey for a simple grep. Thank $deity it's so robust. Ulysses was thrown back and forth between Scylla and Charybdis, but he wouldn't have managed to survive in either, let alone both.