2015-07-03

/usr/sbin as symlink transition completed

The /usr/sbin as symlink conversion was successfully completed some weeks ago. That means that void now contains just a single directory to store all executables: /usr/bin. /bin, /sbin and /usr/sbin are symlinks to /usr/bin.

This has some advantages because all applications will find the executables on any PATH, without rebuilding any package to change its location.

If your system still contains a /usr/sbin directory, upgrade your system with xbps-install -Syuv and then make sure that /usr/sbin only contains symlinks.

After rebooting runit-void will move the existing /usr/sbin directory to /usr/sbin.old and will create the /usr/sbin symlink.

NOTE the images from 20150615 have /usr/sbin as a symlink already, so that you don’t have to do anything.