Re: usrmerge in bookworm
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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