Re: Will bin-sbin-merge migrate existing systems?

[Adam Williamson]

On Tue, 2025-01-21 at 14:23 +1100, Ian Laurie via test wrote:
> For an existing Rawhide system, will regular updates migrate it to a
> merged bin-sbin?  I am asking because it looks to me like it happened
> already but my system still has a /usr/sbin directory.
>
> Will an in-place upgrade of 41 to 42 merge bin and sbin?

Not exactly. Zbigniew decided that 'migrating' existing systems would
be too risky, so instead, they still have a separate /usr/sbin , but
everything in it should now be a symlink pointing to /usr/bin.

I have reservations about this design as it means pre-F42 upgraded
systems will differ significantly from F42+ fresh installs forever, but
we'll see how it works out.