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Author: Hendrik Boom
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To: dng
Subject: Re: [DNG] Problem upgrading to Daedalus
On Tue, Aug 22, 2023 at 08:53:33PM +0900, Olaf Meeuwissen via Dng wrote:
> Hi Marc,
>
> Marc Shapiro via Dng <dng@???> writes:
>
> > I am currently running Chimaera and wish to upgrade to Daedalus.
> >
> > While I know that it should be perfectly safe to change the lines in
> > my sources.list from Chimaera to Daedalus, then run apt update, apt
> > upgrade and apt dist-upgrade, I also know that sometimes this does not
> > go well.  I was a Debian user, up until Buster.  When I couldn't get
> > Buster to work without systemd I said it was time to switch.  I have
> > been using Devuan ever since.  There were times when an upgrade did
> > not go as smoothly as it should have.

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> Putting /usr on a separate partition under Daedalus? Smells like you
> hit "usrmerge"
>
> https://wiki.debian.org/UsrMerge
> https://www.debian.org/releases/bookworm/amd64/release-notes/ch-information.en.html#a-merged-usr-is-now-required

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> > What do I need to do to have the above filesystems mounted and
> > populated, so that the system will boot?
>
> If it is indeed a case of hitting usrmerge, I'd say you need to move
> everything in /dev/mapper/vg1-usr--daedalus to vg1-root--daedalus.
> The stuff below /usr/local/ can stay where it is.


I thought Devuan still did not require usrmerge? Not even in daedalus?

-- hendrik