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Zac Medico posted on Thu, 07 Dec 2017 01:07:21 -0800 as excerpted: |
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> On 12/07/2017 12:37 AM, Duncan wrote: |
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>> Zac Medico posted on Fri, 31 May 2013 22:49:02 -0700 as excerpted: |
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>>> On 05/31/2013 10:36 PM, Duncan wrote: |
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>>>> As in subject, is portage bin/usr-bin merge safe? |
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>>>> It appears most of my clashing files are /usr/bin/* -> /bin/* |
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>>>> symlinks. |
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>>> I haven't tried it, but it should work just fine. Portage has always |
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>>> supported directory symlinks like these. I haven't heard any recent |
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>>> complaints regarding them. |
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>> As the attribution says, I'm resurrecting a thread from 2013... |
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>> I set up a merged /usr/bin -> /bin (and sbin -> bin, and /usr -> .) |
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>> soon after that, with very few problems, usually ebuilds doing |
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>> unconditional rms in postinst or the like, until recently... |
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>> Something recently changed, as now I'm having many more problems, so |
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>> far with four packages, glibc (!!), coreutils (!!), nano, and shadow, |
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>> installing symlinks that ultimately point to themselves. |
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> I think the sort order of your root directory changed for some reason. |
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> The order that readdir returns filenames depends on the filesystem |
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> implementation: |
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> http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man3/readdir.3.html |
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That's... strange. Back in 2013 might have still been on reiserfs, but |
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I've been on btrfs for awhile now. I wonder what might make it change |
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order? |
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Tho I /did/ somewhat recently upgrade ssds, thus copying the /bin dir |
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and /usr -> . symlink, among other root entries. Obviously back when I |
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first setup the /usr -> . symlink it was the newest entry. Maybe if I |
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delete and recreate it so it's definitely the newest entry again... |
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I have no idea how long it might have been before I came up with the idea |
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to try that on my own. Thanks! I'll (gingerly, I don't like major |
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system breakage!) see if it makes a difference. |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman |
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