On 2/10/20 1:09 AM, L A Walsh wrote:
On 2020/02/04 10:06, Stefan Seyfried wrote:
Am 04.02.20 um 18:45 schrieb Dominique Leuenberger / DimStar:
On Tue, 2020-02-04 at 17:21 +0100, Axel Braun wrote:
in short: check /etc/nsswitch.conf; you very likely have a .rpmnew lying next to it. Merge the changes. Anything a package maintainer needs to do? No; this is all on users that ignore .rpmsave and .rpmnew files.
But if their system doesn't come up, how will they be able to look at them?
Moving the location of standard linux config and administration files from /etc/ (only been there for about 50 years), to /usr has to be one of the less well thought out changes -- only if you have a suse-only system that isn't used for any user or customer purpose where they would have to load and/or configure any non-suse software might this possibly work and even then its a very dangerous move. At the most basic, you are moving away from unix and posix compatibility which will disqualify opensuse as a base for a huge number of applications that need such compatibility. If you are talking opensuse out of the linux/unix/posix compatible category, then you might justify it, but too many non-suse applications expect files in well documented, fixed locations.
Again, you break the source of things on 'root' and point symlinks off to /usr which may not even be mounted yet. Suse can claim it doesn't support various user preferences and methodologies that have been used for scores of years, but this has a potential of being noticeably worse than the systemd change-over.
I admit to my lack of knowledge here, but is this the path Redhat is taking and sorta not giving Suse a choice if Suse remains a Redhat derivative?
Well SUSE has never been a Redhat derivative, Redhat is solving the same problem in a different way by moving the files somewhere else, I don't remember where but all the info is in the thread from June titled "RFC: configuration files in /etc" so that is the best place to read if you want to understand why this change exists. -- Simon Lees (Simotek) http://simotek.net Emergency Update Team keybase.io/simotek SUSE Linux Adelaide Australia, UTC+10:30 GPG Fingerprint: 5B87 DB9D 88DC F606 E489 CEC5 0922 C246 02F0 014B