On Sat, Jul 17, 2021 at 12:51 PM Guillem Jover <guil...@debian.org> wrote: > On Fri, 2021-07-16 at 15:23:01 -0400, Zack Weinberg wrote: > > As a stopgap safety measure, I suggest that dpkg-fsys-usrunmess should > > use policy-rc.d to block all service activation while it’s running. > > Hmm, right, that's not nice, sorry for the trouble. Hmm on one hand I > guess installing a policy-rc.d would make this safer, on the other, it > might end up not restarting services that will end up possibly using > old inodes or pathname references, which might affect service monitoring > for example, so I'm not sure what's worse.
You would know better than me -- I mostly use Debian as a workstation environment, I have very little experience with weird server issues. > But then I think the better option is to move the package > configuration at the end once everything has been unmessed and the > filesystem has been fully cleaned up. That seems like a good change regardless. If there are any packages whose postinsts somehow depend on the presence or absence of files that move between / and /usr in this process, they're more likely to do the Right Thing after the moves are completely done. Thanks for the quick reply. zw
