"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/

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