Re: Will bin-sbin-merge migrate existing systems?

On 22/1/25 09:47, Adam Williamson wrote:
> On Wed, 2025-01-22 at 09:33 +1100, Ian Laurie via test wrote:
>> 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
>
> I'm not 100% sure, honestly. I think it might take updates.

Well I've just hit a related issue.  I just built a fresh VirtualBox
Rawhide Xfce made from
Fedora-Everything-netinst-x86_64-Rawhide-20250120.n.0.iso (blood
pressure still recovering from the dramas caused by the current
anaconda... Wayland?) and I am unable to install beesu.

The error looks related to the merge (beesu for me still isn't a link in
my old Rawhide instance... it's still in /usr/sbin).

rawhide$ sudo dnf install beesu
.
.
.
Running transaction
Transaction failed: Rpm transaction failed.
   - file /usr/sbin/beesu conflicts between attempted installs of
beesu-2.7-47.fc41.x86_64 and beesu-2.7-47.fc41.x86_64
rawhide$

Note that beesu is not yet installed.

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