On Sat, 2026-06-27 at 12:04 +0200, Nick via Dng wrote:
> On 6/27/26 11:41 AM, Peter Duffy wrote:
> > I'm coming into this late in the game, and I'm sure I'm not
> > understanding all the parameters at the moment: I need to do more
> > reading and research.  A couple of things occurred to me:
> >
> > - does the usrmerge process keep a log?  If so, would it be
> > possible to
> > do a "usrdemerge"?  If not, maybe it might be a good idea to
> > introduce
> > logging into the package? (If the maintainer would allow it, of
> > course
> > . . . )  Obviously, just putting the files back into their original
> > locations isn't going to be sufficient to reverse the usrmerge
> > process
> > - all the things which depend on the new locations would also need
> > to
> > be fixed.
> >
> > - probably worth reproducing the problem with the usrmerge upgrade
> > and
> > doing a detailed diagnosis. (By now, someone may have already
> > started
> > on that.)
> >
> > On Sat, 2026-06-20 at 07:55 -0500, o1bigtenor via Dng wrote:
> > > Greetings
> > >
> > > I use a separate system to do initial updates on before I do some
> > > on
> > > my main system.
> > > A habit developed quite some time ago on advice from a mentor.
> > >
> > > Did the usrmerge upgrade and then had an unusable system.
> > > Stopped there.
> > >
> > > Have seen comments which seem to suggest that this usrmerge idea
> > > is
> > > not really a
> > > good idea.
> > >
> > > So do I reinstall Daedalus on my testing system and not bother
> > > upgrading to Excalibur
> > > waiting for perhaps an option where I don't need to use usrmerge
> > > or
> > > do
> > > I do an install of
> > > Excalibur removing Daedalus (which is no borked).
> > >
> > > Advice is sought - - - please?
> > >
> > > TIA
>
> The usrmerge is not that difficult to do manually. I had to do that
> for
> my Pi cluster booting from NFS and could easily make backups on the
> server side in case of error. Eventually not long after that I
> changed
> my cluster to boot from iscsi instead of nfs because docker changed
> their default driver storage support to overlay2. Overlay2 will not
> work
> on a nfs mounted storage.
>
> As I mentioned earlier on this list if you do not mind to have a
> unsupported system you can uninstall usrmerge and usr-is-merged
> packages, set pin priority to -1 and continue the upgrade. In the
> long
> run it will not be sustainable though and I choose rather a other
> battle
> then usrmerge.
>

Thanks for that - I will go back through the list and do some more
reading.


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