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

[Bill Nottingham]

Bill Nottingham (notting at redhat.com) said: 
> Miloslav Trmač (mitr at volny.cz) said: 
> > On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 1:06 AM, Martin Langhoff
> > <martin.langhoff at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >>  But you can add:
> > >>
> > >> Provides: /bin/foo
> > >
> > > Ugh! Will that be needed that across the distro for a release or two?
> > 
> > http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/gitweb/?p=coreutils.git;a=commitdiff;h=09220fef36dcc2fe06bd858578119872f889c7e2
> 
> That should not be needed.

To be precise:

[root at nostromo ~]# mv /bin /cow
[root at nostromo ~]# /cow/ln -s /cow /bin
[root at nostromo ~]# rpm -qf /cow/bash
bash-4.2.20-1.fc16.x86_64
[root at nostromo ~]# rpm -qf /bin/bash
bash-4.2.20-1.fc16.x86_64

rpm should already handle this, no need for the provides.

Bill