[bug-notifications] [alternatives 0004424]: CSWsudo and CSWalternatives interaction breaks sudo installs on SPARC

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http://www.opencsw.org/mantis/view.php?id=4424 
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Reported By:                dkohfield
Assigned To:                phil
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Project:                    alternatives
Issue ID:                   4424
Category:                   upgrade
Reproducibility:            always
Severity:                   minor
Priority:                   normal
Status:                     resolved
Resolution:                 fixed
Fixed in Version:           
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Date Submitted:             2010-05-20 22:46 CEST
Last Modified:              2010-05-21 01:32 CEST
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Summary:                    CSWsudo and CSWalternatives interaction breaks sudo
installs on SPARC
Description: 
Upgraded from a blastwave installation, which for all practical purposes
was a clean install on the system in question:

  SunOS neon 5.9 Generic_118558-05 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-V240

After the upgrade/install, sudo was not working.  

Trouble-shooting included uninstalling and reinstalling CSWsudo and all of
its dependencies.  Using 'pkg-get -i sudo' installed all dependencies, then
generated the following error as the CSWsudo package was installed:

  /opt/csw/bin/sudo.minimal
  /opt/csw/share/doc/sudo/license
  [ verifying class <none> ]
  /opt/csw/bin/sudoedit.minimal <linked pathname>
  Registering 'sudo' alternative /opt/csw/bin/sudo.minimal ...
  ERROR: /opt/csw/sbin/alternatives could not be found
  [ verifying class <cswalternatives> ]

This is despite CSWalternatives having been successfully (?) installed as
a dependency, and '/opt/csw/sbin/alternatives' being present (though not
executable).

The net result is that no symlink, or symlink chain is created along the
lines of:

  /opt/csw/bin/sudo ->  \
   /etc/opt/csw/alternatives/sudo -> \
   /opt/csw/bin/sudo.minimal

Another system upgraded roughly 2-3 months ago has this symlink chain in
place.  The version of CSWalternatives is different.  On the working
system, 'pkginfo -l CSWalternatives' produces:

   PKGINST:  CSWalternatives
      NAME:  alternatives - Alternatives engine from Red Hat
chkconfig-1.3.30c
  CATEGORY:  application
      ARCH:  sparc
   VERSION:  1.3.30c,REV=2010.02.18
    VENDOR:  http://www.sfr-fresh.com/unix/privat/ packaged for CSW by
Dagobert Michelsen
    PSTAMP:  dam at build8s-20100218134904
  INSTDATE:  Mar 31 2010 13:08
   HOTLINE:  http://www.opencsw.org/bugtrack/
     EMAIL:  dam at opencsw.org
    STATUS:  completely installed
     FILES:       12 installed pathnames
                   1 shared pathnames
                   7 directories
                   3 executables
                 111 blocks used (approx)

On the non-working system, 'pkginfo -l CSWalternatives' produces:

   PKGINST:  CSWalternatives
      NAME:  alternatives - an implementation of linux-style alternatives
choice mgr
  CATEGORY:  system
      ARCH:  all
   VERSION:  1.0,REV=2009.10.17
    VENDOR:  http://www.opencsw.org written and packaged for CSW by Philip
Brown
    PSTAMP:  cswalternatives v1.0
  INSTDATE:  May 20 2010 11:52
   HOTLINE:  http://www.opencsw.org/bugtrack/
     EMAIL:  phil at opencsw.org
    STATUS:  completely installed
     FILES:        3 installed pathnames
                   2 executables
                  26 blocks used (approx)

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 (0007938) phil (manager) - 2010-05-21 01:32
 http://www.opencsw.org/mantis/view.php?id=4424#c7938 
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btw: a quicker, more effective fix than your suggested "quick fix", would
have been to simply add executable perms to the alternatives script, and
run it :)
I believe that

chmod 0755 /opt/csw/sbin/alternatives
alternatives -auto sudo

should have fixed it up for you.