On Sun, Feb 28, 2021 at 01:52:11AM +0000, Dimitri John Ledkov wrote: > Hi, > > On Sat, 27 Feb 2021 at 22:38, Marco d'Itri <m...@linux.it> wrote: > > > > On Feb 27, Paul Gevers <elb...@debian.org> wrote: > > > > > > Due to systemd changes, currently usrmerge requires a reboot to > > > > complete. > > > > To lower support load on the community, as the usrmerge author I suggest > > > > that we wait to explicitly recommend users to install it until we will > > > > have implemented running it from the initramfs or some other workaround. > > > > Hence, for buster +1. > > > What's the current status on this? Should we recommend anything of this > > > kind already in the bullseye release notes? If so, can either of you > > > maybe propose some text? > > Actually this is not clear: me and other people attempted some more > > conversions and we have not been able to reproduce this anymore: the > > conversion just works as expected with no mid-conversion reboot needed. > > So we assumed that whatever the problem was with the systemd bind mounts > > it was "fixed" at some point. > > > > Cc'ing Dimitri John who did some related work on the Ubuntu side and > > maybe has more data. > > Ubuntu has been installing systems usrmerged since Disco. > In the upcoming hirsute release, we also installing usrmerge package > as part of the upgrade. > But it means that one has to install bionic then upgrade to at least > focal, before upgrading to hirsute with this being performed. > It also means in Ubuntu during the upgrade people are booted with > 245.4 systemd. > I have not managed to find any units that prevent ugprade to usrmerge so far. > > Can you please advise which systemd unit options have broken the > upgrades in the past? And are they still in place, or have evolved to > be more specific / not problematic anymore?
FWIW: Debian Bug #978636 "move to merged-usr-only?" in Package: tech-ctte @ bugs.debian.org/978636 might have some interesting background information. Bye, Joost
