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Am 02.04.2013 11:23, schrieb Reindl Harald:
Am 02.04.2013 11:14, schrieb Harald Hoyer:
it makes ZERO sense to split /usr to a own partition you owuld really clone a partition containing the whole system or share it with another setup without the depending RPM database which lives in /var/lib/rpm/?
sorry but the idea of a seperate /usr is broken at all
This is FUD. The idea is perfectly fine and we should bring our OS in shape for doing it so
so explain what is FUD in the simple fact that snapshot/clone a sperated /usr where 99% of the files are from RPM packages while the RPM database is NOT under /usr makes no sense?
what do YOU imagine when as example (what was one of the arguments for UsrMove) a snapshot of /usr is done before a upgrade which changes the RPM database in /var/lib/rpm and you rollback to the snapshot while the RPM database still has all updates?
i can not imagine a better way to fuck up a OS-installation
We are not there yet. The target should be to have rpms only install to /usr and then this rpm DB can live in /usr also. Of course rpm does not support multiple databases... yet.
The use-case for a separate /usr is the "shared across multiple machines" use-case. For this use-case /usr is read-only anyway and rpm updates can only be made on the master machine. rpm on the client machines is useless and other mechanisms to keep /etc synchronized have to be used anyway.