Re: Where's /bin/kill ?

[Edward Betts <edward@debian.org>]

Filip Van Raemdonck <filipvr@xs4all.be> wrote:
> Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> > I know that it should have moved from bsdutils to procps or vice-versa
> > but actually I don't have any /bin/kill on my machine and i'm running the
> > latest potato ... strangely there's no bug report about this problem
> 
> I don't know about kill, but other things have disappeared too...
> I also upgraded to latest potato this morning and it left me without any
> fdisk tool afterwards.
> I checked in the potato Contents-i386 which said that fdisk should be in
> util-linux, but it wasn't.
> So I decided to downgrade (happy to have /var/cache/apt around!) all
> packages which were generated from the util-linux source to it's
> previous version, namely util-linux, mount and also bsdutils.
> 
> Does someone know what is the actual problem here?

As far as I can see it was a mistake in debian/rules, the line:

export arch = $DEB_HOST_ARCH

Should have been:

export arch = $(DEB_HOST_ARCH)

I changed it and recompiled and fdisk and cfdisk came back.
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