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<H1>[Mageia-dev] ANNOUNCE: The /usr move cometh! <---- Instructions</H1>
<B>Thierry Vignaud</B>
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TITLE="[Mageia-dev] ANNOUNCE: The /usr move cometh! <---- Instructions">thierry.vignaud at gmail.com
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<I>Mon Jul 23 16:14:09 CEST 2012</I>
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<PRE>On 23 July 2012 16:05, Colin Guthrie <<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">mageia at colin.guthr.ie</A>> wrote:
><i> Well I do not think doing such a move on an in-use filesystem is a
</I>><i> particularly good idea (especially for the /var/run bit which makes use
</I>><i> of several socket files for IPC (think all of dbus breaking).
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</I>><i> So doing such a conversion like this does not seem like a good idea to
</I>><i> me. This is why it is done in the initrd before the switchroot or in the
</I>><i> installer when the system is mounted under /mnt.
</I>><i>
</I>><i> That's my opinion on it. One thought: we could put it in a %post script
</I>><i> provided it was protected via a check on the $DURING_INSTALL variable
</I>><i> and thus only ran in the installer context.
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we could set DURING_INSTALL in mgapplet and warn harder
not to do anything else while upgrading.
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