[Mageia-dev] ANNOUNCE: The /usr move cometh! <---- Instructions

[Colin Guthrie]

'Twas brillig, and Thierry Vignaud at 24/07/12 07:45 did gyre and gimble:
> On 22 July 2012 02:12, Colin Guthrie <mageia at colin.guthr.ie> wrote:
> 
>>  6. Reboot.
>>  7. At the bootloader prompt, edit the command line and append: "rw
>> rd.convertfs" (without the quotes) to your command line and then boot.
> 
> Some links were broken in / (they work only if cwd is /):
> 
> -lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root        7 Gou  24 08:30 bin -> usr/bin
> +lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root        8 Gou  24 08:42 bin -> /usr/bin
> 
> -lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root        7 Gou  24 08:30 lib -> usr/lib
> -lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root        9 Gou  24 08:30 lib64 -> usr/lib64
> +lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root        8 Gou  24 08:42 lib -> /usr/lib
> +lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root       10 Gou  24 08:42 lib64 -> /usr/lib64
> 
> -lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root        8 Gou  24 08:30 sbin -> usr/sbin
> +lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root        9 Gou  24 08:42 sbin -> /usr/sbin
> 
> Note the missing leading "/"...

Yup this is intentional. There is no need to a leading /. IMO this is
just a bash bug:

e.g.

mkdir -p foo/usr/bin
ln -snf usr/bin foo/bin
ls -l foo/

The above is no different and works fine.

Relative symlinks are generally preferred for chroot/mounting manually
purposes.

Col



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