Unified Filesystem Layout ?

[pgmer6809]

The release notes for Ulyssa (20.1) say that it supports uinified file system layout.
that page says that all the stuff in /bin, /sbin, /lib etc is now just logical links to the real files in /usr/bin /usr/lib etc.

I just upgraded my system from 20 to 20.1 using the upgrade tool in update manager (it went VERY smoothly BTW. Kudos to the team)
However when I do a

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which bash

I get only /bin/bash and when I do a

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 find /usr -iname bash -print

I get no hits for a bash binary

So what do they mean when they say that 20.1 supports the unified file system?

pgmer6809

[rene]

On a newly installed 20.1 /bin, /sbin, /lib, /lib32, /lib64 and /libx32 are symlinks to /usr/bin, /usr/sbin, etc. I.e., there it's true. We've seen more reports of an upgraded copy not getting this right: would seemingly need to write this off as a simple upgrader bug.

By the way: not "the stuff in /bin, /sbin, /lib etc is now just logical links [ ... ]" as you say but /bin, /sbin etc. are/should be themselves symlinks to their /usr counterpart directories.

[AndyMH]

We've seen more reports of an upgraded copy not getting this right: would seemingly need to write this off as a simple upgrader bug.

Yep. I ran into this, LM20.0 installed and then upgraded to LM20.1 will have both /bin and /usr/bin, etc. no symlinks. LM20.1 installed from scratch will have symlinks for /bin, etc. Confused the policy kit I had that worked with LM20.1 (that was an upgrade) and not with a LM20.1 (fresh install).

[rene]

Yep. I ran into this

Quite. You were those "more reports"