[Mageia-dev] ANNOUNCE: The /usr move cometh! <---- Instructions

Mon Jul 23 16:51:36 CEST 2012

'Twas brillig, and Thierry Vignaud at 23/07/12 15:14 did gyre and gimble:
+> On 23 July 2012 16:05, Colin Guthrie <mageia at colin.guthr.ie> wrote:
+>> Well I do not think doing such a move on an in-use filesystem is a
+>> particularly good idea (especially for the /var/run bit which makes use
+>> of several socket files for IPC (think all of dbus breaking).
+>>
+>> So doing such a conversion like this does not seem like a good idea to
+>> me. This is why it is done in the initrd before the switchroot or in the
+>> installer when the system is mounted under /mnt.
+>>
+>> That's my opinion on it. One thought: we could put it in  a %post script
+>> provided it was protected via a check on the $DURING_INSTALL variable
+>> and thus only ran in the installer context.
+> 
+> we could set DURING_INSTALL in mgapplet and warn harder
+> not to do anything else while upgrading.
+
+That would mean mgaapplet would have to regenerate initrds etc. at the
+end of the process too as various packages have code that prevents
+initrd generation during install (this was most recently highlighted due
+to a bug with this check in mageia-theme breaking btrfs installs in the
+installer - still need to do an official update for mageia-theme so that
+at least net installs for btrfs+mga2 work).
+
+Col
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