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

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Fri Jan 27 17:33:36 UTC 2012


Ralf Corsepius (rc040203 at freenet.de) said: 
> On 01/27/2012 06:05 PM, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> >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 hard coded into 1000s of scripts and packages.
> 
> I seriously think, Fedora has many urgent problems to address than
> the churn this "Feature" causes.

? There's no churn required due to packages having /bin/sh in them.

Bill


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