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

[Derek Broughton]

Rashkae wrote:

> Rashkae wrote:
> 
>> The rename from util-linux I'm familiar with is in a binary named
>> reanme.ul  Fair enough.  Now I just need to figure out the proper way of
>> changing an alternative in Ubuntu.  But that's low priority for me atm.
>> 
> 
> Nothing is ever easy.
> 
> 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.

Well, I wouldn't call it a bug (is rename.ul actually the rename you
want?) - but you should be able to add rename.ul to update-alternatives if
you want it.  

It should just be "update-alternatives --set rename /path-to/rename.ul" . 
If that does what you want, file a wishlist bug against util-linux.
-- 
derek