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Re: Move all to /usr



On 2011-10-14 02:28 +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote:

> My plan is to write a script which moves to /usr all the binaries in
> /bin and /sbin (taking care of the few cases which actually are links
> to /) and then converts the directories to symlinks to /usr/bin and
> /usr/sbin.

> After this I will try to break the system by upgrading it and installing
> and removing packages.

Packages that ship both a program /bin/foo and a /usr/bin/foo symlink to
it will fail to unpack if /bin is a symlink to /usr/bin (or the other
way around, for that matter).  This includes coreutils (touch) and
debianutils (which).

Sven


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