Hello, I'm going to move systemd completely to /usr soonish and thus I'd like to submit the following news item for review. I'd appreciate any comments and suggestions.
-- NEWS ITEM FOLLOWS -- Title: systemd /usr migration Author: Michał Górny <mgo...@gentoo.org> Content-Type: text/plain Posted: 2012-01-06 Revision: 1 News-Item-Format: 1.0 Display-If-Installed: sys-apps/systemd We have decided to move our systemd installation into /usr prefix. After the upgrade, the main systemd executable will be installed as /usr/bin/systemd and the unit files will be installed to /usr/lib/systemd; however, systemd will still look for unit files in the /lib location. For this reason, a new revisions of all systemd versions have been added to the tree and all users are advised to upgrade ASAP to make the transition as painless as possible. To achieve that, the following steps have been taken: 1) the new systemd versions install and enable a path monitoring helper which automatically updates /etc/systemd symlinks when unit files are moved from /lib to /usr/lib; 2) the systemd.eclass will block older versions of systemd to ensure that the service files aren't installed in the new location before the helper service is in place; 3) a symlink is installed at /bin/systemd to ensure that current init= specifications are still valid. Please note that these features will be removed after the transitional period and users upgrading afterwards will have to manually ensure correctness of their installations. The former two features will be removed on 2012-03-01, the last one on 2012-05-01. -- Best regards, Michał Górny
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