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

Tue Jul 24 11:28:33 CEST 2012

'Twas brillig, and Thierry Vignaud at 24/07/12 07:45 did gyre and gimble:
+> On 22 July 2012 02:12, Colin Guthrie <mageia at colin.guthr.ie> wrote:
+> 
+>>  6. Reboot.
+>>  7. At the bootloader prompt, edit the command line and append: "rw
+>> rd.convertfs" (without the quotes) to your command line and then boot.
+> 
+> Some links were broken in / (they work only if cwd is /):
+> 
+> -lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root        7 Gou  24 08:30 bin -> usr/bin
+> +lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root        8 Gou  24 08:42 bin -> /usr/bin
+> 
+> -lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root        7 Gou  24 08:30 lib -> usr/lib
+> -lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root        9 Gou  24 08:30 lib64 -> usr/lib64
+> +lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root        8 Gou  24 08:42 lib -> /usr/lib
+> +lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root       10 Gou  24 08:42 lib64 -> /usr/lib64
+> 
+> -lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root        8 Gou  24 08:30 sbin -> usr/sbin
+> +lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root        9 Gou  24 08:42 sbin -> /usr/sbin
+> 
+> Note the missing leading "/"...
+
+Yup this is intentional. There is no need to a leading /. IMO this is
+just a bash bug:
+
+e.g.
+
+mkdir -p foo/usr/bin
+ln -snf usr/bin foo/bin
+ls -l foo/
+
+The above is no different and works fine.
+
+Relative symlinks are generally preferred for chroot/mounting manually
+purposes.
+
+Col
+
+
+
+-- 
+
+Colin Guthrie
+colin(at)mageia.org
+http://colin.guthr.ie/
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