[arch-dev-public] Merging the "bin" directories

[Dave Reisner]

On Sun, May 12, 2013 at 01:54:34PM +0200, Thomas Bächler wrote:
> Am 12.05.2013 13:13, schrieb Tom Gundersen:
> >> List of showstoppers:
> >>
> >> - Shells (with hardcoded paths in users' passwd)
> >> - fsck helpers (all hardcoded to be in /sbin)
> > 
> > All mount and fsck helpers should be ok to move to /usr/bin. At least
> > from mount and fsck's point of view, did you have something else in
> > mind?.
> 
> They used to be hardcoded to /sbin/mount.$FOO and /sbin/fsck.$FOO, has
> that changed?
> 
> 

It's okay to move helpers like fsck.ext4 -- fsck itself has a lookup
path which we can set to whatever we want. We currently append
/usr/bin:/usr/sbin to the default of /sbin:/sbin/fs.d:/sbin/fs.

It's not okay to move /sbin/fsck itself.

$ strings /usr/lib/systemd/systemd-fsck | grep -F /sbin/fsck
/sbin/fsck