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

[Reindl Harald]

Am 27.01.2012 18:33, schrieb Bill Nottingham:
> 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

if you finally want get rid of /bin it is

if you finally want have /bin as symlink forever this whole
change is only wasted time and makes no sense at all



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