On Oct 14, Charles Plessy <ple...@debian.org> wrote: > If the merge in /usr is implemented in the base-files package, it means that > existing systems will not be automatically converted. So to support the > systems combining where the root filesystem is not supported by bootloaders > and > where the disk is small, it would only need to make the merge in /usr optional > at installation time. > > So, how would the merge in /usr would be implemented in practice ?
Fedora plans to use a method which is very similar to what we did for the /usr/doc/ transition, and which requires modifying every packages which installs files in /bin and /sbin (78 on my system, not counting /lib). I suppose that this is required by RPM, but I wonder if with dpkg we could get away with a more quick and dirty approach which may also have the benefit of not being mandatory to cater for the people who are emotionally attached to a standalone /usr. My plan is to write a script which moves to /usr all the binaries in /bin and /sbin (taking care of the few cases which actually are links to /) and then converts the directories to symlinks to /usr/bin and /usr/sbin. After this I will try to break the system by upgrading it and installing and removing packages. -- ciao, Marco
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