Now that 9.0 is out, and work for 9.1/10.0 will start, can we please get committment from Mandrake that _all_ forms of modifying anything in /usr will be eliminated? I am willing to help in identifying and submitting modifications where I can in working towards this goal.
This is an important goal. I am sure I am not the only user that wants to be able to nfs mount /usr. Anyone with even a medium-to-largish size farm of Mandrake boxes could/should be NFS mounting /usr. To this end, I will start with this one: - drakfont tries to add fonts to /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/drakfont Fonts added by drakfont on individual machines should be place in /var somewhere. Perhaps /var/X11R6/... As an additional benefit, the system administrator should be able to add fonts to /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/drakfont on the /usr NFS server. Perhaps drakfont should check the state of /usr and see if it is a) mounted read-only and can be remounted read-write for the operation of adding fonts or b) if it is NFS mounted and add fonts to /var/X11R6/... if it is. The second issue with regards to having a read-only or NFS mounted /usr is urpmi. urpmi needs to be modified so that it can either a) be configured to not install into a defined directory hierarchy, such as /usr or b) auto-magically detect that a given directory hierarchy is nfs mounted and not try to install into it. A gravy item here would be to have uprmi "verify" the state of files in an NFS-mounted hierarchy and warn/error about files that are not correct. Thots? b. -- Brian J. Murrell
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