On Tue, 18 Jun 2002 17:24:42 +0200, Brian J. Murrell wrote: > I was doing a system update today. That system has /usr mounted > read-only from the server. This concept in general does not work > terribly well with Mandrake Linux, but with menu it is a disaster. > > That is because the menu data seems to be kept in > /usr/share/gnome/distribution-menus so that any package that runs > /usr/bin/update-menus gets errors like: > > cp: cannot remove `/usr/share/gnome/distribution-menus/Mandrake-simplified/= > .directory': Read-only file system > > It really should be possible to have a farm of Mandrake boxes mount > /usr from a single server.
It is planned to switch to /var/lib/gnome (or something like that, like Debian) when I'll add Mandrake menu support to GNOME 2 (you shouldn't have to wait for too long for that..) -- Fr�d�ric Crozat MandrakeSoft
