On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 3:55 AM, Bill Crawford billcrawford1970@gmail.com wrote:
On Friday 26 September 2008 02:02:44 Chris Snook wrote:
Steve Grubb wrote:
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/bin/rpm uses something in /usr
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I don't see why the above need to be in /bin or /sbin.
It can help in (admittedly quite odd situations) where you need to, say, reinstall grub or a kernel because you broke something ;o) Also, admittedly, in that case, I was able to mount /usr before proceeding
On the rpm5 list, Jeff Johnson mentioned that /bin/rpm was just a legacy thing that people expected and has since changed the package to install to $bindir (/usr/bin). Not that that applies here exactly, but making /bin/rpm usable when /usr is not available would require moving a lot of things to /lib.
-- Dan