[Buildroot] [PATCH] system: add options for /bin /sbin and /lib to be symlinks into /usr

Yann E. MORIN yann.morin.1998 at free.fr
Wed Sep 2 22:09:23 UTC 2015


Arnout, All,

On 2015-09-02 23:17 +0200, Arnout Vandecappelle spake thusly:
> On 02-09-15 22:59, Arnout Vandecappelle wrote:
> > On 02-09-15 00:55, Yann E. MORIN wrote:
> >> systemd is incresaingly expected things to live in /usr/bin or
> >> /usr/sbin.
> >>
> >> However, a lot of packages stil install stuff directly into /bin or
> >> /sbin.
> >>
> >> Add an option so that /bin and /sbin be symlinks to /usr/bin and
> >> /usr/sbin. Ditto for .lib for consistency.
> 
>  One more thing: it would be good to mention explicitly in the commit log that
> /lib64 (or /lib32 or /libx32) doesn't need to be handled because that is already
> a symlink to lib.

Yeah, I almost mentionned them, but refrained from doing so, as I thought
it was already well-known that they were synlinks already.

But I'll add this before I resubmit.

Thanks! :-)

Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.

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