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On Wed, 2012-01-04 at 18:12 +0100, Ulrich Mueller wrote: |
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> >>>>> On Wed, 4 Jan 2012, Michał Górny wrote: |
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> >> What mistakes? |
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> > The mistake of introducing a pointless separation based on a rule of |
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> > thumb which becomes more and more blurry over time, and hacking |
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> > packages just to make it work. |
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> There's really nothing pointless or blurry about this separation. |
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> The FHS has a nice definition: "The contents of the root filesystem |
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> must be adequate to boot, restore, recover, and/or repair the system." |
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The problem is that to boot a modern system, you need a shitload of |
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stuff. For example, modern network filesystems often have secure |
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authentication and probably LDAP too, so that means we need to move ldap |
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and openssl into / and all the dependencies. Also, anything that |
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installs a udev rule needs to be in /, and the list goes on an on. Very |
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soon, you have almost everything in /... |
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This rule made sense in the 80s, but it doesn't match the modern world |
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anymore. |
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Some longer explanations: |
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http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/separate-usr-is-broken |
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https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/UsrMove |
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Here is a list of packages on your system that will break if you start |
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udev without /usr mounted: |
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egrep 'usb-db|pci-db|FROM_DATABASE|/usr' /*/udev/rules.d/* |cut -f 1 |
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-d : | sort -u | xargs qfile -e |
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Olivier Crête |
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