Apologies. It seems that usrmerge had not successfully performed the merge (another issue). It was installed, as can be seen in my first message, but running /usr/lib/usrmerge/convert-usrmerge manually did the trick. It also merges /lib*.
Thank you and with my best regards, On Tue, Sep 19, 2023, at 17:18, David Kalnischkies wrote: > On Mon, Sep 18, 2023 at 07:56:09PM -0400, Philippe Grégoire wrote: >> As such, I can no longer install or remove packages since my system is >> partitioned. I'd like to point out that the above link does not specifically >> mention disk partitioning, but only how files are placed on disk. >> >> Obviously, re-partitioning the system is something I'd like to avoid at the >> moment. >> >> Thinking about it, in the long term, due to the merge and how packagers are >> expected to be able to address files (e.g. /bin/sh vs /usr/bin/sh), I don't >> see any other way than re-partitioning. Re-partitioning will be done by a >> future me. > > It is sort-of the point of /usr-merge that /usr can be another partition > instead of having packaged content split over multiple subdirectories > of / which could all be individual partitions, but only really work if > you mount them all anyhow… (yes, /etc, /var and all that jazz. People > have opinions on that, too. Lets focus on the problem we already have > now instead of pilling additional ones on top). > > > What should be the case is that /usr is a directory and e.g. /bin is > a symlink to /usr/bin. That is what the apt code is trying to check in > a somewhat roundabout way with inode as both /usr and /usr/bin should > point to the same real directory occupying the same inode. > > > That should be the case even if you have /usr on a different partition. > Are you sure your system is properly merged – as in you haven't unmerged > it with e.g. dpkg-fsys-usrunmess or prevent the merge to be executed > automatically by the installation of usrmerge? > > In either case, it is probably better to contact a user support list > to resolve your issue. > > >> P.S. I'm uncertain why /lib isn't also merged with /usr/lib > > It is? The code even checks for /sbin, /bin und /lib – but that isn't > all that /usr-merge entails and APT doesn't really want to be checking > for everything. Just for some easy to verify truths to ensure nothing > went south… like it seems to have happened on your system. > > > Best regards > > David Kalnischkies > > Attachments: > * signature.asc
