Ian, I know you're busy at the moment with re-organising the code and rationalising the BTS, but I thought I'd float this idea past the list.
It would be good, IMO, to make dpkg support a RO /usr partition. The way I imagine this working is that dpkg (when a specific option is enabled in its config file, of course), when run with one of the write-actions (install, purge, remove, etc.) will automatically remount /usr as read-write, and then remount it read-only afterwards. This has a few advantages: 1) It means that /usr can be mounted RO for most of the time, protecting it from damage in the case of system crash. 2) It means that the sysadmin can isolate the time when changes are made to /usr 3) It allows us to fix 'bugs' in applications which write to /usr, which is one step towards more successful diskless and shared /usr support. Any comments? Jules /----------------+-------------------------------+---------------------\ | Jelibean aka | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | 6 Evelyn Rd | | Jules aka | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Richmond, Surrey | | Julian Bean | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TW9 2TF *UK* | +----------------+-------------------------------+---------------------+ | War doesn't demonstrate who's right... just who's left. | | When privacy is outlawed... only the outlaws have privacy. | \----------------------------------------------------------------------/
