[systemd-devel] [PATCH] fsck: Search for fsck.type in PATH

[Mike Gilbert]

On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 11:48 AM, Lennart Poettering
<lennart at poettering.net> wrote:
> On Wed, 09.04.14 10:07, Mike Gilbert (floppym at gentoo.org) wrote:
>
>> Matches default behavior in recent util-linux.
>
> Quite frankly, this is really really broken in Gentoo. Randomly moving
> packages from /sbin to /usr/sbin that are required during early boot is
> just wrong. Either you keep the distinction between the two dirs, and
> then fsck clearly belongs in /sbin, and not /usr/sbin, or you remove the
> distinction, and then /sbin should be a symlink to /usr/sbin so that the
> distinction doesn't matter.
>
> But this scheme that Gentoo is following there, is just a recipe for
> breaking almost every possible package.
>
> The /usr merge is about increasing compatibility by providing everything
> in both dirs. But Gentoo is really decreasing compatibility with itself
> here by randomly moving things around and not providing things under the
> old location. Really, you should rethink this, it's bogus! Entirely and
> completely bogus!
>

As I said before, I don't maintain the dosfsprogs package, so I
personally have no control over this. I'm not a fan of randomly moving
things around either.

I will pass along your comments to our base-system team.

> Anyway, even though I strongl disagree with how Gentoo is handling the
> transition here, the patch looks OK and should probably go in.
>

Thank you for reviewing. I will make another pass on this over the weekend.