-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 On 04/05/2016 12:53 PM, Alexis Ballier wrote: > On Tuesday, April 5, 2016 2:26:53 PM CEST, Duncan wrote: >> >> As I said in the other thread, I'm running merged /usr and >> bin/sbin here, except that I merged them the other way, with /usr >> -> . so everything in /usr is now in /. >> >> Portage has long "just worked" in that regard, tho I've no idea >> whether the other PMs do. Portage has enough intelligence to >> avoid replacing a file with a symlink pointing to it (and thus to >> itself once the replacement is done), regardless of which way the >> directory symlinks point. >> >> As such, coreutils "just works". If the two would end up in the >> same canonical location, the file wins and the symlink isn't >> installed. > > What about the unlikely case with two files ? >
Having actually run this way myself, I did find one case that I haven't filed a bug for yet: the plymouth ebuild tries to install symlinks in /sbin pointing at /usr/sbin, and portage chose to install the symlinks instead of the real files, for whatever reason (apparently because the $ED/sbin directory is created after the $ED/usr directory). Because of this, it might be best to ensure that packages that do install in both places are modified not to do so under such a configuration. - -- Jonathan Callen -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJXBFMbAAoJEEIQbvYRB3mg2e4P/2lPBxpyjY311LP7gN2Nndn4 Dd4EtFbh8tQWoedPJQgr2CIeVgpPFA7l/stuvcoZAqLVDuFnn4ZmMWSIQOgHmgPp +mIiCDPuLMjhqw/yINlTGGVVhffHFG4PrHcd2MwP6Gm9ME0NH8+Z0cgAznHsHQ5c lgNdfXDsgBdrSrKu5/JTw7jDOv1A1TwIACJoLpEYZTlVCBClp6J01kqH1oyEzPf8 FO6fqAvFJXCq1um6/+ve8LOpS0OLBpg0dh5kcdkFgV1430FqNwUczMINhav5J0mp qTAIZTO4OSLxyswOUiKoxROl4xrQ1ByYi1ZF7g24oh7M1fmkreNClrhJ1kA3M6ff OJ3LJ6m350LEIVzAED66pnKOTNDOLJSaz6MsPk8CHzuJ2RCMatKjBA3Lb0tkkepp 5LOCBXbnVfSPRI+TQM91cHXVnh87T1zZSeGT8qOCfNoF7rFWNSlpIRnxMeeFlv2n 0kXfJo9YeiUAA9BYXBryMIsWr4StM4I9oq0ITc7h9WmB/WKW6zJhl7WHd7SgiePW Lb2fHJtz0R8dUIc53Yxuls1Cbt8AUAFYmN9Ve615cVLs3+jO8HWmwiuFfiYH71k1 JaS51cgBjPBnQuiET0iNxu/gjIekwIjoNptn/cCr9IZ4jnZ9L13ai6Wug49vUwwK bed4Tt3nl8GSbRtlV+rk =PHpB -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
