Re: Bug#978636: move to merged-usr-only?

2021-01-02 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Jan 02, Matthias Klumpp wrote: > You wouldn't have to depend on PackageKit, the offline-upgrades stuff > can be implemented by other tools that aren't PK as well (you could > pretty much use the same mechanism, with some safeguards to not > interfere with PK/GNOME). However, ensuring that no

Re: Bug#978636: move to merged-usr-only?

2021-01-02 Thread Matthias Klumpp
Am Di., 29. Dez. 2020 um 23:13 Uhr schrieb Marco d'Itri : > > On Dec 29, Matthias Klumpp wrote: > > > For package upgrades, we can already perform so-called "offline > > upgrades", where the system reboots into a smaller systemd target, > > applies all updates and then reboots again into the

Re: Bug#978636: move to merged-usr-only?

2021-01-02 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Tue, 2020-12-29 at 23:12 +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote: [...] > I think that depending on PackageKit would be more complex than an > initramfs-tools hook, since just about everybody is supposed to have > that around. I'm afraid not - dracut, tiny-initramfs, and custom kernels that don't need an

Re: Bug#978636: move to merged-usr-only?

2020-12-29 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Dec 29, Matthias Klumpp wrote: > For package upgrades, we can already perform so-called "offline > upgrades", where the system reboots into a smaller systemd target, > applies all updates and then reboots again into the updated system. > This is implemented in PackageKit as an option and used

Re: Bug#978636: move to merged-usr-only?

2020-12-29 Thread Matthias Klumpp
Am Di., 29. Dez. 2020 um 17:39 Uhr schrieb Marco d'Itri : > > On Dec 29, Ansgar wrote: > > > as suggested in [1], I would like to see Debian to move to support > > only the merged-usr filesystem layout. This would simplfy things for > > the future and also address the problem with installing

Re: Bug#978636: move to merged-usr-only?

2020-12-29 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Dec 29, Ansgar wrote: > as suggested in [1], I would like to see Debian to move to support > only the merged-usr filesystem layout. This would simplfy things for > the future and also address the problem with installing files under > aliased trees that dpkg has to do for both variants to be

Bug#978636: move to merged-usr-only?

2020-12-29 Thread Ansgar
Package: tech-ctte X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org Hi, as suggested in [1], I would like to see Debian to move to support only the merged-usr filesystem layout. This would simplfy things for the future and also address the problem with installing files under aliased trees that dpkg