Comment 5 for bug 1537116

------- Comment From <email address hidden> 2016-01-29 01:43 EDT-------
Steve,

>
> The command placement *should* conform to the FHS requirement, that /sbin is
> for tools that may be needed in order to mount /usr, and /usr/sbin is for
> everything else. In practice this line is not enforced clearly, and /usr as
> a separate partition may require an initramfs to mount it. I don't know the
> specific reason that iprconfig is placed in /sbin, but I would say that
> vpdupdate should invoke iprconfig using the default system search path,
> instead of hard coding a specific path to the command.

Thanks for the clarification.

>
> This probably doesn't affect Fedora and recent Red Hat either way, because
> they have merged /usr and / so that /sbin and /usr/sbin are symlinked to
> each other.

Yes. They have merged both .

>
> > Also can you please fix this in Ubuntu tree -OR- do you want us to fix
> > it in upstream before you fix?
>
> We would prefer to have an agreed upstream fix first that we can then pull
> into Ubuntu.

Sure. We will fix it in upstream and raise separate defect for that.

>
> > (In reply to comment #6)
> > > This bug was fixed in the package lsvpd - 1.7.6-0ubuntu2
>
> > > ---------------
> > > lsvpd (1.7.6-0ubuntu2) xenial; urgency=medium
>
> > > * Add dependency on iprutils, since iprconfig is needed. LP: #1537116.
>
> > Thanks!
>
> > Did you fix iprconfig path as well?
>
> No, this only added the dependency.

Thanks. Since the original issue reported here is fixed, we can close this bug.

-Vasant