Re: djblinux?

Stefan Karrmann <[email protected]> Wed, 25 Jun 2003 19:09:33 +0200

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.djb.package
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

Paul Jarc (Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 03:45:08PM -0400):
> Stefan Karrmann <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Paul Jarc (Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 01:35:23PM -0400):
> >> Russell Nelson <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>> what about all the commands, like /bin/rm, etc?  GNU tools?
> >>
> >> Yes, in my case.
> >> lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     default         1 Jun 17 10:51 /usr -> .
> >> lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     default         7 Jun 17 10:51 /bin -> command
> >> lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     default        34 Jan 23 14:51 /command/rm -> /package/misc/spf/coreutils/bin/rm
> >
> > Why not breaking backward compatibility?  Create:
> > lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     default         1 Jun 17 10:51 /usr -> usr
> > lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     default         7 Jun 17 10:51 /bin -> bin
> > lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     default         7 Jun 17 10:51 /var -> var
    lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     default         7 Jun 17 10:51 /lib -> lib
    lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     default         7 Jun 17 10:51 /etc -> etc


> What do you mean?  A symlink that points to itself is broken.

Yes, so every non-/package style software breaks in djb-os.
It's similiar to dropping /usr, etc., but with broken symlinks the
directories won't be recreated.

-- 
Stefan