Findutils 4.6.0 find location

[William Harrington]

Do we need to move find to /bin?

LFS states that some packages in BLFS and beyond expect find to be in /bin. Has anyone ran across any packages which require that?

mv -v /usr/bin/find /bin
sed -i 's|find:=${BINDIR}|find:=/bin|' /usr/bin/updatedb

[Martin Ward]

Replying to kb0iic:

Do we need to move find to /bin?

LFS states that some packages in BLFS and beyond expect find to be in /bin. Has anyone ran across any packages which require that?

mv -v /usr/bin/find /bin
sed -i 's|find:=${BINDIR}|find:=/bin|' /usr/bin/updatedb

I've always put it /bin, haven't uncovered any problems, could be a hardcoded path somewhere along the line

[chris@…]

I'm pretty sure the only reason for that is that find is used in the bootscripts. Therefore the location shouldn't matter when used with systemd.

That being said, systemd does have one file in its testsuite that looks specifically for /bin/find, though it also looks for /sbin/find which we know doesn't exist so I'm not sure if /bin/find is really required for that.

[chris@…]

I've built a system several times with find in /usr/bin, and had no problems. Though, the sysvinit CLFS book does use find in the bootscripts, so /usr/bin/find probably should be moved to /bin for sysvinit.

[William Harrington]

For this next release we can make sure that find is in /bin