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

[Miloslav Trmač]

On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 4:52 PM, Bill Nottingham <notting at redhat.com> wrote:
> 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.

Elsewhere in this thread it was pointed out that yum doesn't handle it
the same way.
   Mirek