Fedora 42 merged /usr/sbin into /usr/bin [1]. As part of that change
the rpm macro %_sbindir was redefined from /usr/sbin to /usr/bin. As
a result RPM build on Fedora 42 fails: install.sh places some files
into /usr/sbin, while rpmbuild looks for them in /usr/bin.
We could resolve this either by following the change and moving
the files to /usr/bin as well, or fixing the spec to place the files
in /usr/sbin. The former is more difficult:
- what about Debian/Ubuntu?
- what about older RPM-based distributions (like all RHEL distributions)?
- what about scripts that hard-code /usr/sbin/<scylla utility>?
So we pick the latter, and redefine %_sbindir to /usr/sbin. Since that
directory still exists (as a symlink), installation on systems with
merged /usr/bin and /usr/sbin will work.
We'll have to address the problem later (likely by installing to either
/usr/bin or /usr/sbin depending on context), but for now, this is a simple
solution that works everywhere.
[1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Unify_bin_and_sbinClosesscylladb/scylladb#24101
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