On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 5:40 PM, Thomas Bächler <thomas@archlinux.org> wrote:
Am 02.08.2011 17:10, schrieb Tom Gundersen:
This website created by the systemd folks sums it up nicely (just replace "systemd" with "initscripts" everywhere): <http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/separate-usr-is-broken>.
Heh, doesn't the "separate-usr-is-broken" in the URL say it all? (Didn't read it yet, will have to soon.) I won't accept any patch that modifies the mkinitcpio core to support this. I might consider a patch that does this in a hook and thus keeps things modular, if you think it is necessary. For example, write a hook that adds a new mount handler:
run_hook() { mount_handler=usr_mount_handler }
usr_mount_handler() { # mount / default_mount_handler "$@" # mount /usr [ add code here to mount /usr ] }
After thinking/discussing on irc. I agree that this is the best solution. I'll post a patch which just implements the super simple case I just posted earlier, and then people can extend it if they want. I think the most important thing is that we declare separate /usr unsupported, so we stop getting bug reports, and we can start simplifying PKGBUILD's. People can use this or similar hooks if they are not able to merge /usr and /. Cheers, Tom