On 24/05/13 11:17, Sébastien Luttringer wrote: > On Sun, May 12, 2013 at 7:22 AM, Allan McRae <al...@archlinux.org> wrote: >> Some packages clearly can not have that done and will >> have to wait until we are prepared to replace those directories with >> symlinks. >> >> Once we see how many packages are left, we can start planning to finally >> get rid of these directories. > > Can we think about doing this soon? There is 234 packages left and 453 > have been fixed. > > I've lost network on 3 hosts by updating them and have systemd > services which use /usr/sbin/{ethtool,sysctl}. There is also breakage > to fcron users who doesn't take care immediately of .pacnew files. > Instead of starting looking at which package can cause breakage or > not, launching the final rebuild now will save admin time. >
The final transition will be much, much easier if there is fewer packages to deal with. Looking at the remaining rebuilds, a large portion can still be moved without issues. As I said in the rebuild description, mark as complete any packages that need to wait. Allan