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Autor: Jimmy Johnson
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A: dng
Asunto: Re: [DNG] no-usr-merged: let's get concrete
On 11/22/18 11:36 PM, Jimmy Johnson wrote:
> On 11/19/18 3:17 AM, KatolaZ wrote:
>> Hi All,
>>
>> in the last few days we have seen many people going at lengths with
>> the pros and cons of a non-merged usr. That has been a great
>> discussion. We have put together a solution that consists into
>> choosing if you want merged-usr at install time. It's available in the
>> current unstable installer:
>>
>>
>> https://pkgmaster.devuan.org/devuan/dists/unstable/main/installer-amd64/current/images/netboot/mini.iso
>>
>>
>> It would be great for the vocal support against usr-merge to become a
>> concrete piece of help to maintaining choice in Devuan. So if you
>> care, please install beowulf/ceres using the mini.iso above and help
>> testing all the possible scenarios of non-merged /usr, to discover any
>> potential issue/breakage there.
>>
>> Note: the mini.iso is a barebone netinst, and tasksel does not
>> currently work (I am on that). The "Package selection" step will
>> fail. Just skip it, continue with the installation, and then install
>> stuff with apt-get after reboot.
>>
>> Please report bugs on https://bugs.devuan.org. We are currently
>> upgrading many packages in unstable, including reportbug, so either
>> use the reportbug version from ascii or just use reportbug to prepare
>> the report and then send the email it creates to
>> submit[at]bugs.devuan.org
>>
>> Your help is very welcome.
>>
>> HND
>>
>> KatolaZ
>
>
> I'm just a user and not sure about the discussion.  But if this has
> something to do with permissions, well I'm used to su to root and do
> what ever I want to do. Things have changed, now I need to sudo to run
> 'upgrade-system', it does a dist-upgrade and runs deborphan with the one
> command.  But I can still su and run aptitude. On this system fully
> upgraded and cleaned today.



Ignore the above post. It was a fluke, I've tested two more systems
with no problem running anything after I su to root and that's a good
thing. :)

Thanks,
--
Jimmy Johnson

Devuan Ceres - Trinity R14.0.6 - AMD A8-7600 - EXT4 at sda8
Registered Linux User #380263