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

[Martin Langhoff]

On Jan 30, 2012 5:37 PM, "James Antill" <james at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> > > For a trivial example -- if package A depends on /bin/foo, will yum &
> > > rpm be satisfied with /usr/bin/foo?
> >
> > Assuming /bin -> /usr/bin link is packaged, yes.
>
>  No, not in any meaningful way, although I assume all of the problems
> have been worked out in the testing done already.
>
>  Yum just uses text matching.

So some work needs to be done at the yum layer to make upgrades and install
of foreign rpms reasonably smooth, I gather?

>  But you can add:
>
> Provides: /bin/foo

Ugh! Will that be needed that across the distro for a release or two?

cheers,

martin
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