[arch-dev-public] Finishing the /usr move

[Eric Bélanger]

On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 9:56 PM, Allan McRae <allan at archlinux.org> wrote:

> I'm bored of waiting...   so lets do this!  What a plans with regard to
> [staging] in the near future?   When it is free, I will kill the current
> TODO list and create a new one.
>
>
I just moved the openobex rebuild to the testing repo. The staging repos
are currently empty.


>
> As far as building goes, I'd suggest building in a [testing] chroot and
> then uploading to [staging].   Building from [staging] is likely to be
> completely broken during this transition.
>
>
Looks like a good plan.

Eric


>
> Draft upgrade instructions:
>
> 1) Fix any non-official packages with files in /bin, /sbin or /usr/sbin
> to put those files in /usr/bin.  The list of packages to be fixed can be
> generated using:
> $ comm -12 <(pacman -Qqm) <(pacman -Qqo /bin /sbin /usr/sbin | sort -u)
>
> 2) Make sure any packages in IgnorePkg or IgnoreGroup do not have files
> in /bin, /sbin, or /usr/sbin.  Fix them if necessary.
>
> 3) Update your system:
> $ pacman -Syu --ignore filesystem
> $ pacman -Su
>
>
> And that should be enough...   With pacman-4.1 (and the patched 4.0.x
> versions in our repos since the /lib move), anybody just doing a "pacman
> -Syu" will get a conflict.  Using --force in pamcan-4.1 will not break
> things (I think...) as --force does not allow overwriting a directory
> with a file.   People using pacman-4.0.x and --force could still break
> their system.
>
> Allan
>