[SOLVED]Symlinking /bin, /sbin to /usr/bin for system update

Hello everyone,
Reading this has exposed a basic gap in my knowledge of linux ownership:
https://www.archlinux.org/news/binaries … ervention/
How is it that a directory /bin can be owned by a package contained within it, as is implied by the query option "-o" to pacman in step 1 of the above linked page?:
$ pacman -Qqo /bin /sbin /usr/sbin | pacman -Qm -
Incidentally, I get no output from this command or the others in steps 1 and 3, so it seems from reading the following that there are no packages causing problems (I'm pretty sure I don't have any packages from unofficial repositories):
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=164505
Secondly, (and I may be completely wrong here), is it really as simple as this to move all the binaries from /bin and /sbin into /usr/bin, then create symbolic links in the root directory pointing to this new location?:
cd /
rsync -a /bin/ /usr/bin/
rsync -a /sbin/ /usr/bin/
ln -s /bin /usr/bin
ln -s /sbin /usr/bin
rm -R /bin /sbin
I use rsync -a here to preserve permissions, although I've heard that I could use tar. Is there a safer/more succinct way of doing this? And finally, I delete the original directories and their
contents last. If I were to delete them AFTER copying their contents to /usr/bin but BEFORE creating the symlinks, I would be in serious trouble, wouldn't I?
Last edited by Amp (2013-06-04 20:10:26)

If you dont have any packages that is in the wrong place you just have to follow the instructions from the front page to upgrade your system.
# pacman -Syu --ignore filesystem,bash
# pacman -S bash
# pacman -Su
No need for manual moving, deleting and symlinking.

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