On Tue, Apr 15, 2025 at 11:20:29AM +0000, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote: > Hi, > > When a system is _upgraded_ to F42, we try to "merge", by making > /usr/sbin a symlink to /usr/bin. This is blocked when a package lists > files under /usr/sbin.
Slight tangent, but I've just discovered an unanticipated consequence of this difference between upgraded & fresh Fedora installs, that is worth pointing out, as it would affect other packages. When building in Koji, /sbin & /usr/sbin are symlinks to /usr/bin. In meson.build libvirt searchs for a bunch of programs, unfortunately searching in /sbin & /usr/sbin, before /bin & /usr/bin. The qualified paths of the programs detected then get built into the binary RPMs to be executed later at runtime. Due to the /sbin symlink, we can find stuff in /sbin in koji even if it has existed in /usr/bin for the entire life of Fedora. All is fine on fresh Fedora installs, as the /sbin symlink works. When deployed on an upgraded Fedora host, /sbin is still a dir and only populated with symlinks for programs that were known to exist in /sbin in Fedora 41. So the /sbin/<BLAH> binary we detected in koji thanks to the /sbin symlink, doesn't exist :-( I rather wish that for upgrades /sbin had been populated with symlinks for everything in /usr/binm, so behaviour would be a better match between new & upgraded hosts. I presume it's too late todo anything about this now, so this mail is mostly a heads up in case other maintainers have packages affected by this kind of problem, which will only affect upgraded hosts. With regards, Daniel -- |: https://berrange.com -o- https://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange :| |: https://libvirt.org -o- https://fstop138.berrange.com :| |: https://entangle-photo.org -o- https://www.instagram.com/dberrange :| -- _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
