Am 15.11.2012 18:09, schrieb Linda Walsh:
MANY legacy scripts with fixed values for the distro's basic utils are failing in 12.2.
Hardcoding paths in scripts is a bad idea by itself, and has been for quite a long time.
This will be a corporate nightmare as those fail.
It won't. A corporation can choose to run SLES, a fine server product with apt support. But even running openSUSE, corporations will evaluate major revision upgrades before rolling them.
I've seen 10 year old scripts fail in 12.2 as well as many rpms.
I see 10 year old code failing with new compiler / linker revisions, updated build systems or changes in the linux kernel. I see script languages scrapping decade-old features. Usually they have been officially deprecated long before being removed. That's the way things go all the time. And all this "move stuff to /usr/ because it's cool to be different" has been announced long before 12.2's release and probably been discussed even longer before. I would not advise average users interested in stability to run self-baked kernels directly without ram disks and uncommon file system layouts. This is asking for trouble. Great for those who want to and can handle it but not for Mr Joe Average whose primary concern is running his business applications and do business. Using initrd OR putting / and /usr on the same partition are two solutions to the initial problem. I don't see a point in prolonging this discussion. -- Ralf Lang Linux Consultant / Developer Tel.: +49-170-6381563 Mail: lang@b1-systems.de B1 Systems GmbH Osterfeldstraße 7 / 85088 Vohburg / http://www.b1-systems.de GF: Ralph Dehner / Unternehmenssitz: Vohburg / AG: Ingolstadt,HRB 3537