Re: [arch-general] lib -> usr/lib move, glibc and curl

2012-08-23 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 23.08.2012 05:28, schrieb Jayesh Badwaik: > On Thursday 23 Aug 2012 01:28:58 Thomas Bächler wrote: >> BINARIES="pacman" >> FILES="/etc/pacman.conf /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist" >> >> Then, edit /etc/mkinitcpio.d/linux.preset: >> >> Add: >> >> pacman_config="/etc/mkinitcpio-pacman.conf" >> pacman_ima

Re: [arch-general] lib -> usr/lib move, glibc and curl

2012-08-22 Thread Jayesh Badwaik
On Thursday 23 Aug 2012 01:28:58 Thomas Bächler wrote: > BINARIES="pacman" > FILES="/etc/pacman.conf /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist" > > Then, edit /etc/mkinitcpio.d/linux.preset: > > Add: > > pacman_config="/etc/mkinitcpio-pacman.conf" > pacman_image="/boot/initramfs-linux-pacman.img" > > and add 'p

Re: [arch-general] lib -> usr/lib move, glibc and curl

2012-08-22 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 23.08.2012 00:54, schrieb Damjan: >>> pacman -Syud --ignore glibc >>> >>> and ended in a broken package manager. pacman is linked against libcurl, >>> which is compiled against glibc 2.16.0 and includes versioned symbols. >>> Luckily I had an old curl package around to temporarily fix the >>> pr

Re: [arch-general] lib -> usr/lib move, glibc and curl

2012-08-22 Thread Matthew Monaco
On 08/22/2012 03:54 PM, Damjan wrote: >>> pacman -Syud --ignore glibc >>> >>> and ended in a broken package manager. pacman is linked against libcurl, >>> which is compiled against glibc 2.16.0 and includes versioned symbols. >>> Luckily I had an old curl package around to temporarily fix the probl

Re: [arch-general] lib -> usr/lib move, glibc and curl

2012-08-22 Thread Damjan
pacman -Syud --ignore glibc and ended in a broken package manager. pacman is linked against libcurl, which is compiled against glibc 2.16.0 and includes versioned symbols. Luckily I had an old curl package around to temporarily fix the problem and update the system. Others may be out of luck, so

Re: [arch-general] lib -> usr/lib move, glibc and curl

2012-08-21 Thread Daniel Wallace
On Aug 21, 2012 6:04 AM, "Christian Hesse" wrote: > > Paul Gideon Dann on Tue, 2012/08/21 11:01: > > On Tuesday 21 Aug 2012 11:05:07 Christian Hesse wrote: > > > Oh, the commands in the wiki exclude curl now. Did not notice that. > > > > > > I am fine with the situation, I can deal with these thi

Re: [arch-general] lib -> usr/lib move, glibc and curl

2012-08-21 Thread Christian Hesse
Paul Gideon Dann on Tue, 2012/08/21 11:01: > On Tuesday 21 Aug 2012 11:05:07 Christian Hesse wrote: > > Oh, the commands in the wiki exclude curl now. Did not notice that. > > > > I am fine with the situation, I can deal with these things. Hopefully > > others will read the wiki. :D > > For thos

Re: [arch-general] lib -> usr/lib move, glibc and curl

2012-08-21 Thread Paul Gideon Dann
On Tuesday 21 Aug 2012 11:05:07 Christian Hesse wrote: > Oh, the commands in the wiki exclude curl now. Did not notice that. > > I am fine with the situation, I can deal with these things. Hopefully others > will read the wiki. :D For those like me that followed the news article's instructions fi

Re: [arch-general] lib -> usr/lib move, glibc and curl

2012-08-21 Thread Christian Hesse
Thomas Bächler on Tue, 2012/08/21 10:43: > Am 21.08.2012 10:25, schrieb Christian Hesse: > > pacman -Syud --ignore glibc > > > > and ended in a broken package manager. pacman is linked against libcurl, > > which is compiled against glibc 2.16.0 and includes versioned symbols. > > Luckily I had an

Re: [arch-general] lib -> usr/lib move, glibc and curl

2012-08-21 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 21.08.2012 10:25, schrieb Christian Hesse: > pacman -Syud --ignore glibc > > and ended in a broken package manager. pacman is linked against libcurl, > which is compiled against glibc 2.16.0 and includes versioned symbols. > Luckily I had an old curl package around to temporarily fix the proble

[arch-general] lib -> usr/lib move, glibc and curl

2012-08-21 Thread Christian Hesse
Hello everybody, I just updated an old system and had to go through the lib -> usr/lib move. I did an pacman -Syud --ignore glibc and ended in a broken package manager. pacman is linked against libcurl, which is compiled against glibc 2.16.0 and includes versioned symbols. Luckily I had an old c

Re: [arch-general] lib -> usr/lib

2012-07-26 Thread C Anthony Risinger
On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 6:03 AM, Tom Gundersen wrote: > On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 10:33 AM, C Anthony Risinger wrote: >> i've got nothing to back this up, but i'm guessing this one is going >> to be a little trickier ... mainly because there are multiple packages >> that are *expected* to exist in

Re: [arch-general] lib -> usr/lib

2012-07-26 Thread Baho Utot
On Thursday, July 26, 2012 12:50:47 PM Tom Gundersen wrote: > On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 8:53 AM, Jayesh Badwaik > > wrote: > > Why will /opt have to go? > > I don't think we will ever manage to get rid of /opt. However, if we > were to follow brainworker's renaming scheme I'd suggest > > /opt to

Re: [arch-general] lib -> usr/lib

2012-07-26 Thread Baho Utot
On Thursday, July 26, 2012 10:56:37 AM Rodrigo Rivas wrote: > On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 10:48 AM, Jayesh Badwaik > wrote: > > > Well, then: > > > /opt -> /usr/opt > > > > > > And everyone will be happy :) > > > > No, I guess not, /usr is for vendor-supplied stuff. /opt is for personal > > stuf

Re: [arch-general] lib -> usr/lib

2012-07-26 Thread Guus Snijders
Op 26 jul. 2012 10:56 schreef "Rodrigo Rivas" het volgende: > > On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 10:48 AM, Jayesh Badwaik < jayesh.badwai...@gmail.com > > wrote: > > > > Well, then: > > > > > > /opt -> /usr/opt > > > > > > And everyone will be happy :) > > > > No, I guess not, /usr is for vendor-suppli

Re: [arch-general] lib -> usr/lib

2012-07-26 Thread Christian Hesse
Christian Hesse on Thu, 2012/07/26 12:46: > Christian Hesse on Thu, 2012/07/26 10:27: > > Rodrigo Rivas on Thu, 2012/07/26 10:18: > > > On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 8:53 AM, Jayesh Badwaik > > > wrote: > > > > > > > Why will /opt have to go? > > > > > > > > > > Well, then: > > > > > > /opt ->

Re: [arch-general] lib -> usr/lib

2012-07-26 Thread Jayesh Badwaik
On Thursday 26 Jul 2012 12:50:47 Tom Gundersen wrote: > I don't think we will ever manage to get rid of /opt. However, if we > were to follow brainworker's renaming scheme I'd suggest > > /opt to /crap > > Should make it clear what kind of packages belong there ;-) ;-) -- Jayesh Badwaik stop h

Re: [arch-general] lib -> usr/lib

2012-07-26 Thread Tom Gundersen
On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 10:33 AM, C Anthony Risinger wrote: > i've got nothing to back this up, but i'm guessing this one is going > to be a little trickier ... mainly because there are multiple packages > that are *expected* to exist in /bin. `bash` (sh) and `coreutils` are > the two major ones

Re: [arch-general] lib -> usr/lib

2012-07-26 Thread Tom Gundersen
On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 8:53 AM, Jayesh Badwaik wrote: > Why will /opt have to go? I don't think we will ever manage to get rid of /opt. However, if we were to follow brainworker's renaming scheme I'd suggest /opt to /crap Should make it clear what kind of packages belong there ;-) -t

Re: [arch-general] lib -> usr/lib

2012-07-26 Thread Christian Hesse
Christian Hesse on Thu, 2012/07/26 10:27: > Rodrigo Rivas on Thu, 2012/07/26 10:18: > > On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 8:53 AM, Jayesh Badwaik > > wrote: > > > > > Why will /opt have to go? > > > > > > > Well, then: > > > > /opt -> /usr/opt > > > > And everyone will be happy :) > > > > BTW, wil

Re: [arch-general] lib -> usr/lib

2012-07-26 Thread Joerg Schilling
Kevin Chadwick wrote: > hmmm, I think I've brought this up before and forgotten the response, > something along the lines of they are not static anymore anyway. They > are atleast majoratively on OpenBSD. *BSD ignored most FHS agreements from 1987 and unfortunately Linux followed this. > I bel

Re: [arch-general] lib -> usr/lib

2012-07-26 Thread Kevin Chadwick
> » > The merged directory /usr, containing almost the entire vendor-supplied > operating system resources, offers us a number of new features regarding > OS snapshotting and options for enterprise environments for network > sharing or running multiple guests on one host. Most of this is much >

Re: [arch-general] lib -> usr/lib

2012-07-26 Thread Kevin Chadwick
> Why will /opt have to go? I think he meant it will have to leave root. It should have been under /usr like /usr/local in the first place. -- Why not do something good every day and install BOINC. _

Re: [arch-general] lib -> usr/lib

2012-07-26 Thread Joerg Schilling
Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Thu, 2012-07-26 at 14:18 +0530, Jayesh Badwaik wrote: > > > Well, then: > > > > > > /opt -> /usr/opt > > > > > > And everyone will be happy :) > > > > No, I guess not, /usr is for vendor-supplied stuff. /opt is for personal > > stuff. That is the conflict. > > I

Re: [arch-general] lib -> usr/lib

2012-07-26 Thread Joerg Schilling
Ken CC wrote: > On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 09:48:00PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > I laugh away this trouble. > > Is there any information about the advantages of lib -> usr/lib? > > anyone likes to answer this question? The "advantage" is that you no longer can boot with a small root filesystem

Re: [arch-general] lib -> usr/lib

2012-07-26 Thread Joerg Schilling
Ian Fleming wrote: > I beleive its a question of > > How is the filesytem structure and its distributed nature/capabilities > relevant today > > i.e the need for /bin or /lib even. /bin has been removed in 1987 already - in favor of a symlink to /usr/bin and a few programs in the (at that tim

Re: [arch-general] lib -> usr/lib

2012-07-26 Thread Jayesh Badwaik
On Thursday 26 Jul 2012 11:12:34 Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Thu, 2012-07-26 at 14:18 +0530, Jayesh Badwaik wrote: > > > Well, then: > > > /opt -> /usr/opt > > > > > > And everyone will be happy :) > > > > No, I guess not, /usr is for vendor-supplied stuff. /opt is for > > personal stuff. That

Re: [arch-general] lib -> usr/lib

2012-07-26 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2012-07-26 at 14:18 +0530, Jayesh Badwaik wrote: > > Well, then: > > > > /opt -> /usr/opt > > > > And everyone will be happy :) > > No, I guess not, /usr is for vendor-supplied stuff. /opt is for personal > stuff. That is the conflict. I need to go back to the future, sorry, back

Re: [arch-general] lib -> usr/lib

2012-07-26 Thread Rodrigo Rivas
On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 10:48 AM, Jayesh Badwaik wrote: > > Well, then: > > > > /opt -> /usr/opt > > > > And everyone will be happy :) > > No, I guess not, /usr is for vendor-supplied stuff. /opt is for personal > stuff. That is the conflict. > But then, /usr/local is for system administrat

Re: [arch-general] lib -> usr/lib

2012-07-26 Thread Jayesh Badwaik
> Well, then: > > /opt -> /usr/opt > > And everyone will be happy :) No, I guess not, /usr is for vendor-supplied stuff. /opt is for personal stuff. That is the conflict. -- Jayesh Badwaik stop html mail | always bottom-post www.asciiribbon.org | www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote

Re: [arch-general] lib -> usr/lib

2012-07-26 Thread C Anthony Risinger
On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 3:27 AM, Christian Hesse wrote: > Rodrigo Rivas on Thu, 2012/07/26 10:18: >> On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 8:53 AM, Jayesh Badwaik >> wrote: >> >> > Why will /opt have to go? >> > >> >> Well, then: >> >> /opt -> /usr/opt >> >> And everyone will be happy :) >> >> BTW, will th

Re: [arch-general] lib -> usr/lib

2012-07-26 Thread Christian Hesse
Rodrigo Rivas on Thu, 2012/07/26 10:18: > On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 8:53 AM, Jayesh Badwaik > wrote: > > > Why will /opt have to go? > > > > Well, then: > > /opt -> /usr/opt > > And everyone will be happy :) > > BTW, will there be the move from /bin to /usr/bin in the foreseeable future? G

Re: [arch-general] lib -> usr/lib

2012-07-26 Thread Rodrigo Rivas
On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 8:53 AM, Jayesh Badwaik wrote: > Why will /opt have to go? > Well, then: /opt -> /usr/opt And everyone will be happy :) BTW, will there be the move from /bin to /usr/bin in the foreseeable future? -- Rodrigo

Re: [arch-general] lib -> usr/lib

2012-07-26 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2012-07-26 at 09:09 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Thu, 2012-07-26 at 12:23 +0530, Jayesh Badwaik wrote: > > Why will /opt have to go? > > I always though /opt was for installing custom software which you do not > > want to mix with other software (for example I have MATLAB and similar

Re: [arch-general] lib -> usr/lib

2012-07-26 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2012-07-26 at 12:23 +0530, Jayesh Badwaik wrote: > Why will /opt have to go? > I always though /opt was for installing custom software which you do not > want to mix with other software (for example I have MATLAB and similar > stuff installed there with each of them in its separate folde

Re: [arch-general] lib -> usr/lib

2012-07-25 Thread Jayesh Badwaik
On Thursday 26 Jul 2012 05:13:39 Damjan wrote: > > If everything is to end up in /usr, then I'd argue that this makes /usr > > superfluous. If merging is to be done, then IMO things should be moved out > > of /usr, not moved in. > > well no > the point is to have a single top-level directory for

Re: [arch-general] lib -> usr/lib

2012-07-25 Thread Ian Fleming
On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 11:30:06PM -0400, brainwor...@lavabit.com wrote: > >> If everything is to end up in /usr, then I'd argue that this makes /usr > >> superfluous. If merging is to be done, then IMO things should be moved > >> out > >> of /usr, not moved in. > > > > well no > > the point is to

Re: [arch-general] lib -> usr/lib

2012-07-25 Thread Menachem Moystoviz
On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 8:01 AM, Oon-Ee Ng wrote: > On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 11:30 AM, wrote: If everything is to end up in /usr, then I'd argue that this makes /usr superfluous. If merging is to be done, then IMO things should be moved out of /usr, not moved in. >>> >>> well

Re: [arch-general] lib -> usr/lib

2012-07-25 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2012-07-26 at 13:01 +0800, Oon-Ee Ng wrote: > On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 11:30 AM, wrote: > >>> If everything is to end up in /usr, then I'd argue that this makes /usr > >>> superfluous. If merging is to be done, then IMO things should be moved > >>> out > >>> of /usr, not moved in. > >> > >

Re: [arch-general] lib -> usr/lib

2012-07-25 Thread Oon-Ee Ng
On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 11:30 AM, wrote: >>> If everything is to end up in /usr, then I'd argue that this makes /usr >>> superfluous. If merging is to be done, then IMO things should be moved >>> out >>> of /usr, not moved in. >> >> well no >> the point is to have a single top-level directory for

Re: [arch-general] lib -> usr/lib

2012-07-25 Thread brainworker
>> If everything is to end up in /usr, then I'd argue that this makes /usr >> superfluous. If merging is to be done, then IMO things should be moved >> out >> of /usr, not moved in. > > well no > the point is to have a single top-level directory for a single purpose. > > so distribution provided fi

Re: [arch-general] lib -> usr/lib

2012-07-25 Thread Damjan
If everything is to end up in /usr, then I'd argue that this makes /usr superfluous. If merging is to be done, then IMO things should be moved out of /usr, not moved in. well no the point is to have a single top-level directory for a single purpose. so distribution provided files will go to /us

Re: [arch-general] lib -> usr/lib

2012-07-25 Thread Timothy Rice
> I beleive its a question of > > How is the filesytem structure and its distributed nature/capabilities > relevant today > > i.e the need for /bin or /lib even. If everything is to end up in /usr, then I'd argue that this makes /usr superfluous. If merging is to be done, then IMO things shoul

Re: [arch-general] lib -> usr/lib

2012-07-25 Thread Ian Fleming
On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 09:19:59AM +0800, Ken CC wrote: > On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 09:48:00PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > I laugh away this trouble. > > Is there any information about the advantages of lib -> usr/lib? > > anyone likes to answer this question? > > > > -ken I beleive its a que

Re: [arch-general] lib -> usr/lib

2012-07-25 Thread Daniel Wallace
On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 09:19:59AM +0800, Ken CC wrote: > On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 09:48:00PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > I laugh away this trouble. > > Is there any information about the advantages of lib -> usr/lib? > > anyone likes to answer this question? > > > > -ken this was the thread

Re: [arch-general] lib -> usr/lib

2012-07-25 Thread Ken CC
On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 09:48:00PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > I laugh away this trouble. > Is there any information about the advantages of lib -> usr/lib? anyone likes to answer this question? -ken

Re: [arch-general] lib -> usr/lib

2012-07-24 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2012-07-24 at 15:52 -0400, Daniel Wallace wrote: > remove udev-compat it is old, either update ld-lsb from aur or remove it > > as for the find, remove any un owned files from anything under /lib. > then remove any empty directories > > then update Thank you :) at least it's not bad tha

Re: [arch-general] lib -> usr/lib

2012-07-24 Thread Daniel Wallace
On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 09:48:00PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > I laugh away this trouble. > Is there any information about the advantages of lib -> usr/lib? > I like to read it, after I finished the following occupational therapy [1]. > I suspect that if I won't do it now, I have to restore my Arc

[arch-general] lib -> usr/lib

2012-07-24 Thread Ralf Mardorf
I laugh away this trouble. Is there any information about the advantages of lib -> usr/lib? I like to read it, after I finished the following occupational therapy [1]. I suspect that if I won't do it now, I have to restore my Arch from a backup? Or can I shutdown and startup anyway? Regards, Ralf