Re: Will bin-sbin-merge migrate existing systems?
Ian Laurie via test <[email protected]>
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On 22/1/25 04:41, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Tue, 2025-01-21 at 14:23 +1100, Ian Laurie via test wrote: >> For an existing Rawhide system, will regular updates migrate it to a >> merged bin-sbin? I am asking because it looks to me like it happened >> already but my system still has a /usr/sbin directory. >> >> Will an in-place upgrade of 41 to 42 merge bin and sbin? > > Not exactly. Zbigniew decided that 'migrating' existing systems would > be too risky, so instead, they still have a separate /usr/sbin , but > everything in it should now be a symlink pointing to /usr/bin. > > I have reservations about this design as it means pre-F42 upgraded > systems will differ significantly from F42+ fresh installs forever, but > we'll see how it works out. OK small problem then, I still have a *lot* of stuff in /usr/sbin that is not yet a link. Is that expected and will change with more updates, or has something gone wrong? Partial listing to illustrate: rawhide$ ls -l /usr/sbin total 51384 -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 18984 Nov 20 11:00 abrt-auto-reporting -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 39456 Nov 20 11:00 abrtd -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 121776 Nov 20 11:00 abrt-dbus -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 1349 Nov 20 11:00 abrt-harvest-pstoreoops -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 8798 Nov 20 11:00 abrt-harvest-vmcore -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 43560 Nov 20 11:00 abrt-server -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 20392 Aug 29 10:00 accessdb -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 16144 Jul 19 2024 accton lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 19 Jan 16 15:25 addgnupghome -> ../bin/addgnupghome lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 14 Jan 16 15:26 addpart -> ../bin/addpart lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 14 Jan 16 15:26 adduser -> ../bin/adduser lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 13 Jan 16 15:26 agetty -> ../bin/agetty -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 135312 Nov 14 11:00 alsactl -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 30138 Nov 14 11:00 alsa-info.sh -- Ian Laurie FAS: nixuser | IRC: nixuser TZ: Australia/Sydney -- _______________________________________________ test mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected] Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue