On Thu, 29 Nov 2018 13:34:24 +0100, KatolaZ wrote in message <20181129123424.ojmbaljuam77m...@katolaz.homeunix.net>:
> On Thu, Nov 29, 2018 at 09:18:38PM +0900, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote: > > Hi Karl, > > > > k...@aspodata.se writes: > > > > > Rich Moen: > > >> Quoting KatolaZ (kato...@freaknet.org): > > > ... > > >> > # ldd /bin/ps | grep "/usr" > > >> > liblz4.so.1 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/liblz4.so.1 > > >> > (0x00007fd7f6ebc000) > > >> > > >> Yeah, those two are really annoying. FWIW, my server system has > > >> older versions of those two utilities that do _not_ have that > > >> (IMO) build error. Local packages will be an immediate resort, > > >> when/if I hit that. > > > ... > > > > > > Attached is a program to find possible /-/usr link breakage. > > > It could possible be changed into an un-usrmerge-program if we > > > want. > > > > Looks like your script is ignoring any symlinks in /bin and /sbin > > that point to stuff in /usr ... > > Or elsewhere not on the partition that holds / ... > > :-/ > > > > Actually, that would amount to getting down a quite deep rabbit > hole. Those links, even if they exist, might have been created by the > postinst script of some package, or by the local sysadmin. In the > former case, removing them blindly will probably cause at least a dpkg > error at the next upgrade of the corresponding package. ..we can use those dpkg errors to help automate bug reports. ..and wherever we disagree with Debian's merge etc policy, a Devuan fork .deb can be as simple as having our postinst script flip a symlink around, or copying files into /sbin or /bin, rather than symlinking them there. > In the latter > case, removing them blindly might possibly cause breakage to some > functionality put in place by the sysadmin and/or undesired > side-effects. ..dpkg-divert is handy in such cases. -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt Karlsen ...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry... Scenarios always come in sets of three: best case, worst case, and just in case. _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng