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On Wed, Aug 31, 2022 at 12:01 PM Jeff Gazso <jeff.gazso@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> Just out of curiosity, how much pain is this likely to cause existing installations that will need to migrate from a split-usr setup to a merged-usr setup? |
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We haven't deployed this to users, so feedback is limited thus far. |
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At least a handful of Gentoo devs have successfully migrated real |
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systems from split-usr to merged-usr without any major problems. It's |
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a relatively simple process: move the existing files (see |
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sys-apps/merge-usr), flip the split-usr USE flag off, and then run |
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"emege --update --deep --changed-use @world". |
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The only pain point I see is for users with /usr on a separate |
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filesystem and that are not using an appropriate initramfs. This has |
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been an "unsupported" configuration on Gentoo for several years, but |
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there are probably some users who do it anyway. |
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