On 31/05/2021 13:53, Ludwig Nussel wrote:
Hi,
As you may have noticed Factory activated the UsrMerge last week. Tumbleweed tests in openQA look good, only a non-usrmerge related bug prevents the release. I haven't received a lot of feedback from the call for testing so I hope that means the migration works really well :-)
Therefore *your next dup will automatically and live migrate your installation* to UsrMerge. Make sure to actually use "dup" and not just "up".
Means everything in /bin, /sbin, /lib and /lib64 will be merged into their counterparts in /usr, then replacing those directories with symlinks to /usr. After the migration packages that have compat symlinks like eg /bin/foo -> /usr/bin/foo will no longer be installable as they conflict with themselves. All packages in the distro have been fixed though.
Due to the full rebuild and activation of gcc11 as default compiler the next snapshot will be a big one, so make sure to have sufficient disk space.
If you are not on btrfs with snapshots and are nervous to break the system you may want to make sure eg busybox-static is installed. So if thing unexpectedly go wrong you have the tools to complete the usrmerge manually. There is no way back.
cu Ludwig
I updated my system, and all went well. :) Except for the issue with the kernel's build and source dir symlinks, but thanks to the heads up https://lists.opensuse.org/archives/list/factory@lists.opensuse.org/thread/4... , I fixed them manually for now. Otherwise, good stuff. Good work, thanks o/ Have a good day. -- Ahmad Samir