UsrMove feature breaking "yum upgrade" upgrades from older releases to F17?

Reindl Harald h.reindl at thelounge.net
Fri Jan 27 17:11:50 UTC 2012



Am 27.01.2012 18:05, schrieb Bill Nottingham:
> Toshio Kuratomi (a.badger at gmail.com) said: 
>> Actually... we will "always" need the compat symlinks (for a finite but
>> definitely long value of "always").  Third party scripts, scripts that have
>> been in use on local systems, written by people who have long since passed
>> on (to new jobs), people targetting FHS compliant systems (unless the FHS
>> changes), etc will all depend on those symlinks being present.  Even third
>> party software that users want to compile and run may try to install into
>> /bin, /sbin, and /lib so we may have that problem even there.
> 
> And things like /bin/sh are compiled into glibc...

and in a million shell scripts out there which are not
part of the distribution - this change is wasted time
at all

the default installation doe snot seperate / and /usr

i still see no sense in doing this at all!

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