update-alternatives, was: Re: Where art thou 'rename'

[Rashkae]

Rashkae wrote:

> 
> If I run:
>  update-alternatives --config rename
> 
> The output returns:
> 
> There is only 1 program which provides rename
> (/usr/bin/prename). Nothing to configure.
> 
> which is incorrect, as I have rename.ul on my system and I confirmed it
> works.  Should this be a bug in update-alternatives packages or
> util-linux package?  I suspect util-linux should be adding files that
> update-alternatives needs to know to do it's thing.
> 
> 

the missing magic is:

update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/rename rename /usr/bin/rename.ul
50 --slave /usr/share/man/man1/rename.1.gz rename.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/rename.ul.1.gz

Which should have been done as part of the util-linux package install.