Fedora 17’s unified filesystem (/usr-move)

[Panu Matilainen]

On 02/01/2012 04:41 PM, Chris Adams wrote:
> Once upon a time, Emanuel Rietveld<codehotter at gmail.com>  said:
>> On 02/01/2012 01:32 PM, Panu Matilainen wrote:
>>> To-be-installed files obviously have no on-disk fingerprints, so it
>>> wont work for initial installation. So yes, those "fake" compatibility
>>> provides are needed. Strictly speaking, compatibility provides would
>>> be needed for ALL the moved files, not just /bin, as it's technically
>>> perfectly legal for a package to depend on an arbitrary path in
>>> /lib[64], not just /[s]bin.
>>>
>>>     - Panu -
>>
>> Would it be possible to leave out these provides and fix each individual
>> package to require in the new path instead?
>
> It isn't practical to "fix" every package that requires /bin/sh.

It's not "just" that the impracticality either - not providing /bin/sh, 
/sbin/ldconfig and the like would mean a huge incompatibility break with 
nearly every existing package in the wild. Not really an option.

	- Panu -