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Re: usrmerge on root NFS will not be run automatically

From Marco <lists@homerow.info>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: usrmerge on root NFS will not be run automatically
Date 2023-09-15 14:00 +0200
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On Thu, 14 Sep 2023 16:43:09 -0400
Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> wrote:

> The heart of the convert-usrmerge perl script is pretty
> reasonable. However:
> 
> […]
> 
> Similarly, there are calls to stat and du which probably have
> some incompatibilities.
> 
> The effect of running this would be fairly safe, but also not do
> anything: you would get some errors and then it would die.

Ok, then I'll not try that. Would be a waste of time.

> Each of these things could be rewritten to be compatible with
> FreeBSD; I suspect it would take about twenty minutes to an hour,
> most of it testing, for someone who was familiar with FreeBSD's
> userland

I'm not going down that route.

Marco

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