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Auteur: KatolaZ
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Onderwerp: Re: [DNG] /usr to merge or not to merge... that is the question??
On Sun, Nov 18, 2018 at 10:40:47AM +0100, Martin Steigerwald wrote:
> KatolaZ - 18.11.18, 09:40:
> > On Sun, Nov 18, 2018 at 04:51:43PM +0900, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote:
> […]
> > > ACK. Just like to point out that Devuan might run into packages
> > > that
> > > have already moved programs that really ought to be in /bin or /sbin
> > > over to /usr/bin and /usr/sbin.
> > >
> > > Image bash getting installed in /usr/bin/bash. With the merged /usr
> > > scenario that's not a problem because /bin is a symlink to /usr/bin
> > > and all you #!/bin/bash scripts will continue to work just fine.
> > > In the non-merged scenario /bin/bash will not exist and all hell
> > > breaks loose.
> > Let's solve first the problems that we have now, instead of trying to
> > solve the problems that we do not have as yet (and might not ever have
> > at all), OK? :)
> >
> > There is no reason so far for the packagers of basic utilities to
> > massively move their stuff under /usr/bin and/or /usr/sbin. So let's
> > keep calm and carry on ;)
>
> As pointed out already… kmod in Debian is already changed to having
> libkmod in /usr instead of /lib¹. kmod is being maintained by Debian
> developers who are also involved with Systemd.
>
> Thus… /usr mounted later… all drivers in order to actually mount /usr
> would have to be compiled into the kernel with that updated kmod package
> already. And they just moved the library, not the binary for now.
> Worrying themselves they may break to much by moving the binaries.


This is actually from yesterday night :D We'll have a look and decide
how to proceed.

My2Cents

KatolaZ

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