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

[Allan McRae]

On 31/05/13 21:35, Sébastien Luttringer wrote:
> On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 1:27 PM, Allan McRae <allan at archlinux.org> wrote:
>> On 31/05/13 21:03, Sébastien Luttringer wrote:
>>> On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 12:02 PM, Allan McRae <allan at archlinux.org> wrote:
>>>> And it is now in the [testing] repository.
>>>>
>>>> A reminder of the 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)
>>>>
>>> A sort is needed for the first pacman call.
>>>
>>> $ comm -12 <(pacman -Qqm) <(pacman -Qqo /bin /sbin /usr/sbin | sort
>>> -u)
>>> ...
>>> comm: file 1 is not in sorted order
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>> Hrm...  I was sure pacman sorted this occording to the system locale.
>> Will add for the news post.
>>
>> Allan
>>
> Another small suggestion about the message, it doesn't detect packages
> in unofficial repositories.
> I had some packages conflicting and not detected because they are in
> my personal repostory.
> I used the following command to detect all packages (except filesystem).
> 
> comm -12 <(pacman -Qq|grep -v filesystem|sort) <(pacman -Qqo /bin
> /sbin /usr/sbin|sort)

And then had to go through the list and check what was in the repos...

I'll add a note to check unofficial repo packages.

> Why not symlink /usr/local/sbin to /usr/local/bin in filesystems?
> 

Because there is absolutely no upgrade path for that.