Re: The naming wars continue...

[Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>]

On Fri, Oct 29, 2004 at 04:54:42PM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> On Fri, 29 Oct 2004, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > 
> > Read-only /usr is required according to the FHS, and at least on Debian 
> > a read-only /usr works without problems.
> 
> Indeed. And that's what I use. In /etc/apt/apt.conf I have:
> 
>     DPkg {
>         // Auto re-mounting of a readonly /usr
> 	Pre-Invoke {"mount -o remount,rw /usr";};
> 	Post-Invoke {"mount -o remount,ro /usr";};
>     }
> 
> > A bigger problem might be to properly support it in the package manager.
> 
> Yep. Apt knows about it, but dpkg doesn't. And remounting /usr read-only
> fails if files are in use.

I was more thinking about the problems like a database upgrade requiring 
changes to e.g. the system tables of the database handled in the 
{pre,post}inst scripts. It even becomes more tricky since a postinst 
script might make changes to both /usr and such required actions.

These issues which require auditing of all packages are the real issue.

> Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
> 
> 						Geert

cu
Adrian

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