From: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>
To: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Abstractions
Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2021 20:19:44 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CANCZdfqEbDCh_TA0sCp7URC6wC73SwSefEKqQSriePZy-RkNPg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YDRtbmWYa0SsSOVn@mit.edu>
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On Mon, Feb 22, 2021, 7:50 PM Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 22, 2021 at 07:38:21PM -0500, Steve Nickolas wrote:
> > On Tue, 23 Feb 2021, Wesley Parish wrote:
> >
> > > I've just checked Slackware 14.* and it's still got a few binaries in
> > > /bin, unlike the RedHat* group which has indeed sent them all to
> > > /usr/bin. I don't know about the Debian* group, or if the Mandrake*
> > > group have gone with the RedHat* or not. Let alone all the other
> > > distros.
> >
> > Debian links /bin to /usr/bin.
>
> New installs of Debian will use a /usr merged configuration. However,
> for pre-existing installations, we are not yet forcing, or even
> strongly recommending, system administrators to install the usrmerge
> package which will transition an legacy directory hierarchy to be /usr
> merged. So at the moment, Debian packages need to support both merged
> and non-merged configurations, which is not ideal
>
I anticipate needing a /usr/bin/bash soon on my FreeBSD system for the same
reason I have a /bin/bash pointing at /usr/local/bin/bash. Progress :)
Warner
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-02-23 3:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 47+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-02-20 23:09 M Douglas McIlroy
2021-02-21 8:15 ` Otto Moerbeek
2021-02-21 11:08 ` Rich Morin
2021-02-21 22:40 ` Dave Horsfall
2021-02-21 23:01 ` Steve Nickolas
2021-02-23 3:31 ` Andrew Warkentin
2021-02-23 17:29 ` [TUHS] /usr separation (was: Abstractions) Greg A. Woods
2021-02-23 18:28 ` [TUHS] /usr separation Grant Taylor via TUHS
2021-02-23 18:57 ` Theodore Ts'o
2021-02-23 20:29 ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2021-02-24 14:14 ` Theodore Ts'o
2021-02-24 17:50 ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2021-02-24 18:37 ` Theodore Ts'o
2021-02-24 18:48 ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2021-02-25 3:38 ` Theodore Ts'o
2021-02-24 20:25 ` Steve Nickolas
2021-02-24 22:08 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2021-02-24 3:12 ` [TUHS] /usr separation (was: Abstractions) Andrew Warkentin
2021-02-22 0:13 ` [TUHS] Abstractions Warren Toomey
2021-02-27 2:47 ` Dave Horsfall
2021-02-23 0:25 ` Wesley Parish
2021-02-23 0:38 ` Steve Nickolas
2021-02-23 2:50 ` Theodore Ts'o
2021-02-23 3:19 ` Warner Losh [this message]
2021-02-23 1:47 ` Theodore Ts'o
2021-02-21 22:54 ` Clem Cole
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2021-02-24 4:18 Rudi Blom
2021-02-23 19:37 Nelson H. F. Beebe
2021-02-23 21:02 ` Charles H. Sauer
2021-02-23 21:15 ` Henry Bent
2021-02-24 2:47 ` Greg A. Woods
2021-02-24 3:20 ` Warner Losh
2021-02-24 20:05 ` Greg A. Woods
2021-02-24 1:51 ` Greg A. Woods
2021-02-24 2:23 ` Nelson H. F. Beebe
2021-02-21 10:47 Paul Ruizendaal
2021-02-15 19:56 Jon Steinhart
2021-02-15 21:52 ` Dave Horsfall
2021-02-16 7:13 ` arnold
2021-02-16 8:15 ` Tom Ivar Helbekkmo via TUHS
2021-02-16 10:04 ` Wesley Parish
2021-02-16 19:59 ` Jon Steinhart
2021-02-17 4:01 ` Theodore Ts'o
2021-02-17 6:50 ` Chris Hanson
2021-02-16 12:26 ` Rich Morin
2021-02-16 22:46 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2021-02-17 12:09 ` David Arnold
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