[gentoo-dev] newsitem: baselayout 2.5 changes (round 2)

[gentoo-dev] newsitem: baselayout 2.5 changes (round 2)

[William Hubbs]

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All,

here is an updated newsitem based on the comments I have received so
far.

William


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Title: baselayout 2.5 updates
Author: William Hubbs <williamh@gentoo.org>
Posted: 2018-02-xx
Revision: 1
News-Item-Format: 2.0
Display-If-Installed: <sys-apps/baselayout-2.5

There are three significant changes in baselayout-2.5.

The first change is that ROOTPATH is no longer set. This means all of
the *sbin directories will be added to the default path for all users
instead of just the root user.

The second change is that baselayout is taking ownership of most of the
directories it creates. This includes all directories in / and /usr
excluding /lib* and /usr/lib*. Once we drop support for SYMLINK_LIB,
baselayout will take ownership of /lib* and /usr/lib* as well.
This means that you should take special care with this update if you
have done something custom with your base filesystem layout such as
renaming default directories and/or using symbolic links to link them to
alternative locations.

Third is the beginning of support for the /usr merge through the
addition of the usrmerge use flag.
DO NOT, DO NOT TURN THIS ON UNLESS YOU KNOW WHAT YOU ARE DOING AND CAN
HELP WITH TESTING.

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Re: [gentoo-dev] newsitem: baselayout 2.5 changes (round 2)

[Peter Stuge]

William Hubbs wrote:
> The first change is that ROOTPATH is no longer set. This means all of
> the *sbin directories will be added to the default path for all users
> instead of just the root user.

Maybe add a sentence about why this is changing or even neccessary,
to avoid perception of weakened security.


//Peter