Bug#787480: Ping?

[Michael Biebl]

Am 09.06.2016 um 07:57 schrieb Martin Pitt:
> Michael Biebl [2016-06-09  2:29 +0200]:
>> At some point, shuffling the libraries around becomes a nuisance. Maybe
>> we should only do that for /lib/systemd/systemd and eventually
>> /lib/systemd/systemd-udevd.
> 
> We got two RC bugs before we had this check, but I don't remember
> whether this was before the initramfs-tools change that mounts /usr.
> But even with that I'm sure that we have a very small number of users
> who believe that separate /usr without initramfs was ever supported,
> and I'm sort of tired about arguing against that..
> 
> Anyway, we can certainly trim that check a bit, but only these two
> aren't sufficient -- we at least need to cover the generators, fsck,
> networkd, reply-passwd, etc. -- seems easier and safer to whitelist
> programs like timesyncd or timedated which are safe.
> 
> Not sure where this linking would end up, I suppose in networkd? 

/lib/systemd/systemd-networkd and /usr/bin/systemd-nspawn if I checked
correctly.

That
> would then break with /usr being on the network and not using an
> initrd. As I said, I have very little sympathy for that, but see
> above..

Oh, the mythical /usr-on-NFS case. I don't see how that would work with
networkd anyway, it having a After=dbus.service…


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