Re: [DNG] ..usrmerge "upgrade" -> unusable system -> unusable distro?, was: question re updating

Author: o1bigtenor
Date:
To: Olaf Meeuwissen
CC: Lorenz, dng
Subject: Re: [DNG] ..usrmerge "upgrade" -> unusable system -> unusable distro?, was: question re updating

On Fri, Jul 3, 2026 at 6:46 AM Olaf Meeuwissen via Dng
<dng@???> wrote:
>
snip
>
> You also have to make sure that whatever your init system runs before
> /usr is mounted does *not* execute anything that lives there. As in
>
> #!/usr/bin/...
>
> in shell scripts or
>
> exec("/usr/bin/...", ....);
>
> for C and whatever else might be used, e.g. /usr/sbin/*, /usr/lib/*,
> /usr/share/*, etc.
>
> Needless to say, if other programming languages are used by your init
> system, their equivalents of C's exec() need covering too.
>
> That said, I haven't bothered to to check what that might entail.
>
> FWIW, with /usr *not* on its own partition and recommended packages
> installed by default (for a change)
>
> % df -h / /usr > Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on > /dev/nvme0n1p2 28G 6.7G 20G 26% / > /dev/nvme0n1p2 28G 6.7G 20G 26% / > % apt-config dump | grep -i recommends > APT::Install-Recommends "1";

>
> but I'm a bit of a minimalist with only(?) 1308 packages installed :-)
>
> Know this doesn't really help, but thought I'd mention it anyway.
>
I'm at a little over 3800 - - - maybe that's the source of all my
issues? (grin)

regards

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