Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 474473
Suggest moving libsensors from /usr/lib to /lib
Last modified: 2014-02-02 17:13:14 EST
Description of problem: apcupsd links to net-snmp, and net-snmp links to lm_sensors. To do its job, apcupsd needs to be able to work at shutdown time, when /usr might not be mounted. apcupsd exists in /sbin, which is fine, but net-snmp and lm_sensors are in /usr/lib. See bug 346271 for the whole thread. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): lm_sensors-3.0.2-1.fc10.i386
ping, it's over half a year, any update/response?
As explained in comment #24 of bug 346271 having a separare /usr is not something which we support anymore in general, this is something which used to be done in the 1980's, but which really isn't relevant anymore. I would like to suggest to start a discussion on the fedora-devel list about this, with as ultimate goal to get a statement from FESco wether or not we support a separate /usr. One could also argue that this is all net-snmp's fault, as it somehow manage to tie libsensors and apcupsd together. While they have nothing to do with each other, other then that they both provide snmp info, if net-snmp was properly modularized, it should be possible to have apcupsd use it with out dragging in libsensors. Or one could argue that this is an apcupsd problem, which makes even more sense, if some functionality of apcupsd is needed during shutdown, then there should be a small separate binary to provide that. The part which provides snmp support is definitely not needed during shutdown, so separate the 2 and be done with it. Now this may seem I'm looking for excuses to not move libsensors to /lib, but the problem is, that if we do not fight every single move of foo from /usr to /, then we end up with 50% of the distro in /, at which point we could just stop having a /usr altogether and install everything in / (which would be a very good idea, as then we no longer have this ancient obsolete artificial separation).
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