[Mageia-dev] Separate /usr issues: Some adjustments needed

Sat Apr 28 14:31:26 CEST 2012

28.04.2012 15:22, Colin Guthrie skrev:
+> Hi,
+> 
+> OK, I'm just doing final (hopefully!) testing of various setups.
+> 
+> Here are some changes I think we need to make:
+> 
+> 1. ncurses: Move /usr/lib64/libncursesw.so.5 to /lib64 (there is a bug
+> report open about this but I kinda forgot about it until now :s)
+> 
+> 2. xz: Move /usr/lib64/liblzma.so.5 to /lib64 (systemctl needs it -
+> after doing a urpmi upgrade with a separate /usr, calling reboot via
+> it's systemctl symlink is the only way to reboot the machine, but it
+> fails after /usr is unmounted due to this.
+> 
+> 3. kmod: Move to /lib64 and /bin - When booting under sysvinit it is
+> impossible to mount /usr if the module is not loaded in the initrd -
+> e.g. if I have /usr on btrfs, I cannot modprobe the btrfs module to
+> mount it.
+> 
+> 
+> Any objections/problems with these suggestions?
+> 
+
+Nope.
+
+This is what we always have been doing for earlier releases too
+
+If we cant guarantee /usr is available we stuff it on /
+
+--
+Thomas
+
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