Bug#632682: base-files: please provide a /lib64 -> /lib symlink on 64-bit systems
Hi again,
Sorry for the lack of clarity.
Sven Joachim wrote:
> On 2011-08-10 20:47 +0200, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
>> 3) ln -s lib64.real /lib64.eglibc-tmp
>> 4) mv -f /lib64.eglibc-tmp /lib64
>
> Now you have a broken lib/lib64.eglibc.tmp symlink which is not quite
> what you want. ;-) It would make more sense to use /lib64.eglibc-tmp/
> as source, but this seems to fail with ENOTDIR.
Yes, this is what I get for thinking in terms of system calls instead
of reading the manpage.
mv -fT /lib64.eglibc-tmp /lib64
should work.
>> 5) clean up on next reboot
>
> Not sure what you mean with that. Could you elaborate?
Well, I handwaved it, but the problem is that there is no way to
atomically replace a symlink by a directory, and it would be best if
this is atomic to avoid disrupting applications running concurrently.
How to address that? Well, just do the hard part:
rm /lib64
mv /lib64.real /lib64
when nothing is running concurrently, in early boot.
Well, that is what I just wrote, but there is a little handwaving
involved: which initscript, exactly? (The initramfs would be the
easy place to do that kind of thing, but not everyone uses an
initramfs.) And how to prevent this from running concurrently with
another script? I don't have a good answer for that.
One answer would be to make a script for the sysadmin to run to
take care of it and just leave a /lib64 -> /lib64.real symlink until
that's done.
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