"Brian J. Murrell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...]
> > but I still don't get why drakfont and urpmi would need to not > > touch /usr (pardon my stupidity if I've still not understood well > > the /usr thingy, I've not experience with nfs mounted /usr), > > since these are "admin" tools they need to be run on the server > > containing /usr as a local disk, so it's correct? > > Ahhhh. Yes. Of course, on the NFS _server_ these tools should update > /usr (in fact everything on the server works as is now), but it's on > the clients that they should not. Urpmi and drakfont should > understand that they cannot modify /usr. Urpmi should simply verify > that the files that are already in /usr (relating to the package being > installed) matches with the RPMs being installed (i.e. md5 checksum) > and give warnings where they don't. Drakfont should install it's > fonts somewhere else, most likely /var/... But why would you want to run these tools from the clients? Since the fonts are installed in /usr, mounting /usr from the server is enough to get the new fonts? -- Guillaume Cottenceau - http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~gc/
