Re: /usr mapped to /
On Fri, Jan 15, 1999 at 03:22:41PM -0500, John Tobey wrote:
> Marcus writes:
> > However, this is only half of the full story. Some packages _create_
> > additional files or symlinks in their installation scripts. For example,
> > /bin/vi is a script in the "ae" package, but every vi package (nvi, vim)
> > creates a symlink /usr/bin/vi via update-alternatives (which, btw, fails
> > because /bin/vi exists already). This leads to subtle
> > problems, for example, calling "vi" results in a loop which does not
> > terminate, because /bin/vi is calling /usr/bin/vi...
> >
> > This problem can't be solved by shadowfs, obviously.
>
> I must be missing something. My understanding of how shadowfs will
> work is that the vi from /usr/bin may be shadowed by vi in /bin, but
> still visible in /usr/bin. Thus /bin/vi and /usr/bin/vi would appear
> as different. If shadowfs is not expected to work this way, why not
> make a special linux-compat-fs that does? (eventually)
Now that you mention it, I am not sure any longer how it is supposed to
work...
> > The only solution is to
> > seperate /usr completely from /, or to find all such conflicts and solve
> > them in one way or another.
> >
> > I have no idea how much of these problems exist. It can be just one, or some
> > dozens. Debian has over 2000 packages, auditing them all seems to ne
> > unpractical :)
>
> Assuming you have all the packages installed (haha) you can find them
^^^^^^
:)
> easily from the command line:
>
> feynman:/# find `ls / |egrep -v '^(usr|proc|src)$'` | perl -lne 'print if -f && -e "/usr/$_"'
> bin/vi
> sbin/rmt
> feynman:/# diff /sbin/rmt /usr/sbin/rmt
> feynman:/#
>
> (Of course, I don't have every package installed. I have no idea why
> rmt is in two places, but at least it's the same in both.)
/sbin/rmt is a link to /usr/sbin/rmt. Such links are compatibility links for
program which expect rmt in /sbin/rmt.
I don't know how dpkg works when it sees such conflicts in the same package.
Can you check if you have the link or the real program in /sbin?
Thanks,
Marcus
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