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Re: from / to /usr/: a summary



On Mon, 2011-12-26 at 22:17 +0000, Philip Hands wrote:
> On Mon, 26 Dec 2011 20:25:12 +0100, md@Linux.IT (Marco d'Itri) wrote:
> > On Dec 26, Thomas Goirand <zigo@debian.org> wrote:
> > 
> > > On 12/22/2011 07:19 PM, Philip Hands wrote:
> > > > I'm still yet to understand the significant upsides of this proposal
> > > So far, the only upside that has been written here, if I understand
> > > well, is less patches for upstream udev, which is important since we
> > > don't have enough people to work on alternatives/fork/patches.
> > No, it's not about "patches". More and more things just need /usr at 
> > boot time, and the solution is to mount it in the initramfs.
> 
> I presume that you mean that they need /usr early enough in the boot
> that we'll not have a chance to mount it as we do now because of entangled
> dependencies.
> 
> Perhaps you could spell out some examples of what you mean, so people
> can judge whether they share your perception.
[...]

/usr may require NFS, which requires networking, which may require crda,
which requires:

$ ldd /sbin/crda
	linux-gate.so.1 =>  (0xf7762000)
	libssl.so.1.0.0 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/i686/cmov/libssl.so.1.0.0 (0xf76f9000)
	libcrypto.so.1.0.0 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/i686/cmov/libcrypto.so.1.0.0 (0xf754b000)
	libnl.so.1 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libnl.so.1 (0xf74fa000)
	libc.so.6 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/i686/cmov/libc.so.6 (0xf73a0000)
	libdl.so.2 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/i686/cmov/libdl.so.2 (0xf739c000)
	libz.so.1 => /usr/lib/libz.so.1 (0xf7388000)
	libm.so.6 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/i686/cmov/libm.so.6 (0xf7362000)
	/lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xf7763000)

Oh well, hopefully no-one actually expects that to work.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Knowledge is power.  France is bacon.

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