On Thu, Oct 1, 2020 at 4:09 PM Michael Biebl <bi...@debian.org> wrote:
> On Mon, 28 Sep 2020 20:43:30 -0300 Felipe Sateler <fsate...@debian.org> > wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 28, 2020 at 4:03 PM Michael Biebl <bi...@debian.org> wrote: > > > > > Package: systemd > > > Version: 246.6-1 > > > Severity: important > > > > > > Upstream changed the paths in systemd.pc from prefix to rootprefix in > > > v246 for sysusers_dir, sysctl_dir, binfmt_dir and modules-load_dir: > > > > > > > https://github.com/systemd/systemd/commit/4a56315a990b802860170ecd1bbd3eb68e14a38b > > > > > > This breaks packages which use pkg-config to determine those paths and > > > where .install files reference /usr/. An example is mandos. > > > > > > I think we should revert this change. I don't see a compelling reason > to > > > move those files from /usr to /lib given that we require /usr to be > > > pre-mounted by initramfs, if it's separate. > > > Moving files from /usr to /lib files kinda backwards nowadays. > > > > > > I intend to apply a patch like the attached one in Debian. > > > That said, I hope I can convince Lennart to revert this change upstream > > > as well. > > > > > > > Looks good to me. > > Ok, thanks for the review. Will apply it to Debian then. > It doesn't look like upstream is interested in changing this back > > > https://github.com/systemd/systemd/commit/4a56315a990b802860170ecd1bbd3eb68e14a38b#commitcomment-42793750 > > > > > > > > > Thoughts, Comments? > > > > > > > I wonder if systemd can be fully installed into `/usr` now that we > require > > premounting. Maybe we should start changing lintian and other tools to > > install into /usr instead of /lib for the tools that currently used > > rootprefix (I believe systemd searches in /usr anyway). > > I gave this a try. It can. > See https://salsa.debian.org/systemd-team/systemd/-/merge_requests/104 > Still very rough, but the package is usable and able to boot a system, > reading udev rules and systemd services from both /lib and /usr/lib. > We probably need quite a few more compat symlinks though. > > This is only the systemd/udev side, though. > The i-s-h/debhelper side is still missing and we'd need to hash out a > plan for this. I'd need help with doing that. > Anyone interested? > I think this is where we should start (i-s-h/debhelper/lintian). I'll try to take a look over the weekend. It's a long weekend over here so I might have some time to take a look. I think the plan should be: 1. Change debhelper and i-s-h to install to /usr 2. Change the lintian warnings to point to /usr 3. Drop the /lib mangling from all the manpages 4. Wait a lot :(. At least a full release cycle, I think. 5. Drop the split and install fully to /usr, with some compat links for non-merged-/usr. What do you think? -- Saludos, Felipe Sateler
