From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Ri7k8-0001K3-O7 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 03 Jan 2012 17:01:45 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C7B9821C1E4; Tue, 3 Jan 2012 17:01:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from amun.cheops.ods.org (amun.cheops.ods.org [83.161.135.166]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 466C421C1DF for ; Tue, 3 Jan 2012 17:00:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from nut.cheops.ods.org ([2001:888:1022:0:ca2a:14ff:fe35:7a00] helo=gentoo.org) by amun.cheops.ods.org with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.77) (envelope-from ) id 1Ri7j7-0006J7-BE for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Tue, 03 Jan 2012 18:00:42 +0100 Date: Tue, 3 Jan 2012 18:00:40 +0100 From: Fabian Groffen To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: rfc: locations of binaries and separate /usr Message-ID: <20120103170040.GM780@gentoo.org> Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org References: <20120101015947.GA9914@linux1> <4F003255.409@gentoo.org> <4F0326B8.9040700@gentoo.org> <20120103165100.GA13446@linux1> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="aUBkjfEwC4w8RlCu" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20120103165100.GA13446@linux1> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (Darwin 11.2.0, VIM - Vi IMproved 7.3) Organization: Gentoo Foundation, Inc. X-Content-Scanned: by amun.cheops.ods.org (Exim Exiscan) using SpamAssassin and ClamAV X-Archives-Salt: 63721a03-379b-477a-9f34-355c57b9650c X-Archives-Hash: 8be9fb8506d047acb66782b2e56164de --aUBkjfEwC4w8RlCu Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 03-01-2012 10:51:00 -0600, William Hubbs wrote: > > If a separate /usr is the only holdback, would it not be possible to=20 > > simply add static devnodes to the pre-udev /dev , and make a pre-init= =20 > > wrapper script that mounts /usr ? > =20 > I've thought about this, but a wrapper script assumes that the things it > needs are still available in /, so any wrapper script we make will break > as soon as something it needs migrates to /usr. For example, consider > what happens when bash or all of coreutils migrate to /usr. Do you mean us, or upstream? I don't think bash or coreutils do that. We explicitly configure them with --prefix=3D/ or move some utils back and forth. --=20 Fabian Groffen Gentoo on a different level --aUBkjfEwC4w8RlCu Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.18 (Darwin) iEYEARECAAYFAk8DNDgACgkQX3X2B8XHTokSmACfYR6YI0/Qm7SkedVjn05lqDPP QiEAn1RCsMpnOYcwxlDdjprT5N5uRyrF =Wxm+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --aUBkjfEwC4w8RlCu--