On Thu, Mar 15, 2001 at 10:22:47AM -0600, Dave Sherohman wrote: > I'm looking at NFS-mounting /usr for a largish number of machines, with the > basic idea that then I can just keep the binaries on the central server up-to > date and the workstations will all follow along with (hopefully) a minimum of > effort. I'm a little concerned about apt, though... I wouldn't expect it to > be very open-minded about /usr being read-only. OTOH, I probably wouldn't > need to run apt very often on the workstations unless there's a change to > config file formats or an all-new package is being installed. > > Any Debian-specific advice on running a setup like that?
# cat /etc/apt/apt.conf DPkg { // Auto re-mounting of a readonly /usr Pre-Invoke {"mount -o remount,rw /usr";}; Post-Invoke {"mount -o remount,ro /usr";}; } -- Eric G. Miller <egm2@jps.net>