Re: Will bin-sbin-merge migrate existing systems?

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On Wed, 2025-01-22 at 09:33 +1100, Ian Laurie via test wrote:
> On 22/1/25 04:41, Adam Williamson wrote:
> > On Tue, 2025-01-21 at 14:23 +1100, Ian Laurie via test wrote:
> > > For an existing Rawhide system, will regular updates migrate it to a
> > > merged bin-sbin?  I am asking because it looks to me like it happened
> > > already but my system still has a /usr/sbin directory.
> > > 
> > > Will an in-place upgrade of 41 to 42 merge bin and sbin?
> > 
> > Not exactly. Zbigniew decided that 'migrating' existing systems would
> > be too risky, so instead, they still have a separate /usr/sbin , but
> > everything in it should now be a symlink pointing to /usr/bin.
> > 
> > I have reservations about this design as it means pre-F42 upgraded
> > systems will differ significantly from F42+ fresh installs forever, but
> > we'll see how it works out.
> 
> OK small problem then, I still have a *lot* of stuff in /usr/sbin that
> is not yet a link.  Is that expected and will change with more updates,
> or has something gone wrong?
> 
> Partial listing to illustrate:
> 
> rawhide$ ls -l /usr/sbin
> total 51384
> -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root   18984 Nov 20 11:00 abrt-auto-reporting
> -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root   39456 Nov 20 11:00 abrtd
> -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root  121776 Nov 20 11:00 abrt-dbus
> -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root    1349 Nov 20 11:00 abrt-harvest-pstoreoops
> -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root    8798 Nov 20 11:00 abrt-harvest-vmcore
> -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root   43560 Nov 20 11:00 abrt-server
> -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root   20392 Aug 29 10:00 accessdb
> -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root   16144 Jul 19  2024 accton
> lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root      19 Jan 16 15:25 addgnupghome ->
> ../bin/addgnupghome
> lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root      14 Jan 16 15:26 addpart -> ../bin/addpart
> lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root      14 Jan 16 15:26 adduser -> ../bin/adduser
> lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root      13 Jan 16 15:26 agetty -> ../bin/agetty
> -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root  135312 Nov 14 11:00 alsactl
> -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root   30138 Nov 14 11:00 alsa-info.sh

I'm not 100% sure, honestly. I think it might take updates.
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