Fedora 18 existing /usr partition -- need to merge into rootfs?

[Reindl Harald]

Am 02.04.2013 11:35, schrieb Harald Hoyer:
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> Am 02.04.2013 11:23, schrieb Reindl Harald:
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>> Am 02.04.2013 11:14, schrieb Harald Hoyer:
>>>> it makes ZERO sense to split /usr to a own partition you owuld really
>>>> clone a partition containing the whole system or share it with another
>>>> setup without the depending RPM database which lives in /var/lib/rpm/?
>>>>
>>>> sorry but the idea of a seperate /usr is broken at all
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>>> This is FUD. The idea is perfectly fine and we should bring our OS in
>>> shape for doing it so
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>> so explain what is FUD in the simple fact that snapshot/clone a sperated
>> /usr where 99% of the files are from RPM packages while the RPM database is
>> NOT under /usr makes no sense?
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>> what do YOU imagine when as example (what was one of the arguments for
>> UsrMove) a snapshot of /usr is done before a upgrade which changes the RPM
>> database in /var/lib/rpm and you rollback to the snapshot while the RPM
>> database still has all updates?
>>
>> i can not imagine a better way to fuck up a OS-installation
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> We are not there yet. The target should be to have rpms only install to /usr
> and then this rpm DB can live in /usr also. Of course rpm does not support
> multiple databases... yet

oh my god

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