Moving lspci and setpci from /sbin to /usr/sbin?

Ralf Corsepius rc040203 at freenet.de
Mon Feb 1 16:35:09 UTC 2010


On 02/01/2010 05:01 PM, Michal Hlavinka wrote:
> On Friday 29 January 2010 06:35:21 Ralf Corsepius wrote:

>> Should setpci be used somewhere in bootup scripts, you likely won't be
>> able to boot up your system at all.
>
> and because libpci is in /usr for a long time and there was not any complain
> so far, it probably is not used

IMO, you are facing a hen-and-egg problem: You've never seen such a 
complaint, because using a separate /usr partition has never worked on 
RH-based distros.

Openly said, I actually would recommend you and the RH testing team to 
launch a campaign to challenge using a separate /usr in Fedora.

Ralf



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