On 10/27/2011 03:01 PM, Phil Knirsch wrote: > On 10/27/2011 11:00 AM, Harald Hoyer wrote: >> On 10/26/2011 09:05 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: >>> On Wed, 2011-10-26 at 15:40 +0200, Harald Hoyer wrote: >>>> On 10/24/2011 08:05 PM, Chris Adams wrote: >>>>>> =================================== >>>>>> #fedora-meeting: FESCO (2011-10-24) >>>>>> =================================== >>>>>> * Discussion about https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/UsrMove >>>>>> (t8m, 17:26:45) >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> Sometimes you have to clean up your room and tidy up the mess, which >>>> piled up over time. This cleanup can be done on one day and checked in >>>> by one person. It's not rocket science! It does not break anything, >>>> because the compat symlinks will _not_ go away. >>> >>> Every time someone says this, something winds up breaking anyway, >>> because of some kind of oddness like situations where the symlinks >>> aren't read or become recursive, or selinux issues (always a fun one)! >> >> I am running my F16 system with all these symlinks now for quiet a >> while. Despite the consolehelper symlinks, I have not encountered any >> problem. Even rpm updates seem to work fine. But I agree, the devil is >> in the detail, and we surely will find something, which does not work. >> But I don't think, these problems are severe and not easily fixable. > > If you already have a system running that way how about if you put > together a document how to do this and let other people or even Fedora > QA test it out and run it through their testsuits? > > That way we'd have a lot more eyes on it, could spot issues with it much > faster and could get the whole idea a solid ground before it's widely > introduced to Fedora and everything would already have been prepared for > it, avoiding exactly those possibly missed oddball or exotic scenarios. > > Just my $0.02 after seeing you eating your own dogfood first (eeeewwww, > grosss! ;))). > > Thanks & regards, Phil > 1. create a dracut initramfs with a bash as the standard shell # dracut -o dash -f 2. reboot 3. Add "rd.break rd.shell" to the kernel command line and you are dropped to the dracut shell. # mount -o remount,rw /sysroot beware not to start paths with / or just prefix them with /sysroot - remove the consolehelper symlinks in /sysroot/usr/bin - move stuff to /sysroot/usr/bin from /sysroot/bin /sysroot/sbin sysroot/usr/sbin - move stuff from /sysroot/lib* to /sysroot/usr/lib* - remove the old dirs - create the _relative_ symlinks # mount -o remount,ro /sysroot 4. exit dracut # exit Then you should be booted into your changed system. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
