[arch-general] glibc 2.16 -- just what is supposed to be in /lib now ??

[Tom Gundersen]

On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 5:52 AM, David C. Rankin
<drankinatty at suddenlinkmail.com> wrote:
>   So then since /lib is very much still a directory and not a symlink, then I
> should:

First, notice that /lib as a symlink is only in testing so far, so
that might explain why you haven't seen it yet. It could be that your
problem is unrelated...

> (1)   cp -a /lib /usr
> (2)   rm -r /lib
> (3)   ln -s /usr/lib /lib

You probably want to be a bit more careful in order to make sure that
the pacman db is not out of sync. That is, check who owns the files in
/lib, if they are owned by glibc leave them alone, if they are owned
by packages, then rebuild and reinstall the packages with the files in
/usr/lib instead, if they are not owned by anyone then move them over
manually as you described. Once that is done, you should be able to
"pacman -S glibc" and it should create the symlink for you. Also check
Allan's last email to dev-public, it is probably explained better
there.

> ... and the kernel modules for the running kernel ending up in /usr/lib/modules
> and udev ending up in /usr/lib/udev -- are all OK with this?

All official packages have their modules in /usr/lib/modules and their
udev rules in /usr/lib/udev, in fact modules in /lib/modules will no
longer work (if you are using testing).

> And what is /usr
> and /lib as _separate_ partitions on the main box? softlinks won't work across
> partition boundaries -- so what then?

Softlinks work across filesystem boundaries, no problem.

-t