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Re: usrmerge in bookworm

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Am 06.10.2023 schrieb Steve Keller <keller.steve@gmx.de>:

> I have upgraded from bullseye to bookworm and it seems the package
> usrmerge is installed forcedly now.  At least it has been installed
> and I haven't been asked about it :-(
> 
> I have always been sceptical about /usr merge, since all binaries now
> appear in two places, "type sh" in bash gives the strange looking
> /usr/bin/sh where all Uni*ers are strongly used to /bin/sh.  But also
> things like the following don't work anymore:

Historic reasons, they don't exist anymore on current systems.

>     $ dpkg -S $(type -p sh)
>     dpkg-query: no path found matching pattern /usr/bin/sh

That is because /bin is now a symlink to /usr/bin and the file isn't
provided in /usr/bin by the package.

> And I don't see a comfortable way around this.

One way would be to strip off /usr from the string to search.

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usrmerge in bookworm Steve Keller <keller.steve@gmx.de> - 2023-10-06 11:30 +0200
  Re: usrmerge in bookworm Marco <mm@dorfdsl.de> - 2023-10-06 11:50 +0200
    Re: usrmerge in bookworm Urs Thuermann <urs@isnogud.escape.de> - 2023-10-06 15:50 +0200
  Re: usrmerge in bookworm Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2023-10-06 13:20 +0200
    Re: usrmerge in bookworm Urs Thuermann <urs@isnogud.escape.de> - 2023-10-06 16:50 +0200
      Re: usrmerge in bookworm Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> - 2023-10-07 00:40 +0200
        Re: usrmerge in bookworm Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de> - 2023-10-07 09:10 +0200
          Re: usrmerge in bookworm Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> - 2023-10-07 22:30 +0200

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