On 09.03.25 17:45, Marco d'Itri wrote:
On Mar 09, Matthias Urlichs wrote:
My "build me a Debian image" script has been doing that for two years now,
simply by moving /var/lib/dpkg to /usr/state/dpkg and bind-mounting it back
onto /var/lib/dpkg (symlinking won't work).
How so? My /var/lib/dpkg
On Mar 09, Matthias Urlichs wrote:
> My "build me a Debian image" script has been doing that for two years now,
> simply by moving /var/lib/dpkg to /usr/state/dpkg and bind-mounting it back
> onto /var/lib/dpkg (symlinking won't work).
How so? My /var/lib/dpkg has been a symlink for a very long t
On 06.03.25 11:25, Helmut Grohne wrote:
onger term, it shall become possible to install Debian in such a way that the
entire installation
lives below /usr (though it will not be possible to upgrade such an
installation due to the lack of /var/lib/dpkg in the initial
implementation).
My "build
Hello,
On Thu 06 Mar 2025 at 11:25am +01, Helmut Grohne wrote:
> Can you clarify how you understand policy here?
>
> I read it as systemd is not performing an installation here and
> therefore does not violate the present policy. If your reading is
> different, we should likely clarify policy on
On Fri, Mar 07, 2025 at 08:14:00AM -0500, Marvin Renich wrote:
> Are you saying that systemd creates the symlinks at runtime when it
> finds them missing, rather that when the systemd package is installed?
> To me, this is a clear violation of the policy quoted above. "...must
> not install..." sa
* Helmut Grohne [250307 07:05]:
> Hi Sean,
>
> On Thu, Mar 06, 2025 at 05:39:06PM +0800, Sean Whitton wrote:
> > Just to note that the most recent release of Policy sort-of defines
> > ownership of this, though it is not as explicit as the TC decision:
> >
> > Packages must not install files
Hi Sean,
On Thu, Mar 06, 2025 at 05:39:06PM +0800, Sean Whitton wrote:
> Just to note that the most recent release of Policy sort-of defines
> ownership of this, though it is not as explicit as the TC decision:
>
> Packages must not install files to paths whose first component is a
> name
Hello ctte,
On Tue 04 Mar 2025 at 11:46am GMT, Matthew Vernon wrote:
> In Bug #1091995, the Technical Committe was asked to rule on an issue
> that could, under certain circumstances, result in failure of the
> base-files package to install or upgrade correctly. Under these
> circumstances, syste
Hello,
In Bug #1091995, the Technical Committe was asked to rule on an issue
that could, under certain circumstances, result in failure of the
base-files package to install or upgrade correctly. Under these
circumstances, systemd will create a symlink from /lib64 to /usr/lib,
which does not match
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