[OE-core] Duplicate recipes in meta-oe

[Mark Hatle]

On 2/6/12 1:43 PM, Philip Balister wrote:
> On 02/06/2012 10:55 AM, Phil Blundell wrote:
>> On Mon, 2012-02-06 at 15:39 +0000, Paul Eggleton wrote:
>>> I talked to Koen at FOSDEM and apparently he prefers having a symlink rather
>>> than a copy for the timezone file. I can't express an opinion one way or
>>> another but it sounds like this one aspect still needs to be resolved - should
>>> this be selectable?
>>
>> I guess this is all bound up with the "/usr on a separate partition"
>> thing.  If your position is that the root filesystem is meant to work
>> without /usr mounted then having /etc/localtime be a symlink
>> into /usr/share is probably not going to fly.  Conversely, one were to
>> take the view that any reasonable system in the 21st century is going to
>> have / anḍ /usr on the same device, making it be a symlink would be a
>> fine idea.
>>
>> I think probably the right answer is to make "1970s-usr" be a
>> DISTRO_FEATURE and then the timezone recipes (and others) can adapt
>> themselves accordingly.
>
> Does anyone use a system where /usr is on a separate partition?

Where I have seen it is on some carrier grade blade systems.  Each blade has a 
small local boot partition, which a shared (read-only) /usr partition.  The 
small boot partition handles initial booting, setup and mounting.. while the 
shared partition handles the majority of "unix infrastructure".

These systems do not use ramdisks, initrds, etc...

I'm also aware of some other systems that do this for boot performance reasons.. 
they do it for booting quickly to the main UI app, and in parallel mounting and 
loading additional runtime apps from the /usr disk (RO) and a /var (RW) disk. 
As things are available the UI options are made available to the end user.  The 
result is a -faster- perceived boot.  Again ramdisks/initrds are not used 
because of various reasons.

--Mark

> Philip
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