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

[Thierry Vignaud]

On 23 July 2012 16:05, Colin Guthrie <mageia at colin.guthr.ie> wrote:
> Well I do not think doing such a move on an in-use filesystem is a
> particularly good idea (especially for the /var/run bit which makes use
> of several socket files for IPC (think all of dbus breaking).
>
> So doing such a conversion like this does not seem like a good idea to
> me. This is why it is done in the initrd before the switchroot or in the
> installer when the system is mounted under /mnt.
>
> That's my opinion on it. One thought: we could put it in  a %post script
> provided it was protected via a check on the $DURING_INSTALL variable
> and thus only ran in the installer context.

we could set DURING_INSTALL in mgapplet and warn harder
not to do anything else while upgrading.