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

[Adam Williamson]

On Tue, 2012-01-31 at 11:03 -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> Miloslav Trmač (mitr at volny.cz) said: 
> > > 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.
> 
> When calculating local on-system provides, it should - in fact, I'd be
> surprised if it doesn't. Admins sometimes move directories around and
> replace them with symlinks.
> 
> Is the statement that it won't take it into account for an initial install
> transaction?

Perhaps it'd be nice for someone to be sure about this? The competing
uncertain 'I think it's sort of like this' assertions are making me
nervous.
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