On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 12:39:09PM +0100, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > On Mon, 2007-03-05 at 12:11 +0100, Axel Thimm wrote: > > On Sun, Mar 04, 2007 at 10:47:18PM -0500, Matthias Clasen wrote: > > > How exactly do you propose packages should install anything under /usr > > > if its readonlyness is so sacrosanct ? Does it at least occur to you > > > that it cannot be readonly at install time ? > > > > Please don't be so literate, we already looped twice around the world > > explaining this. If you read it letter by letter and ignore FHS' > > intentions you may indeed logically conclude that /usr would be an > > empty filesystem, but try reading the full context. > > > > The bottom line is: Don't %config/%config(noreplace) files under /usr. > > 1. When will you finally understand that rpm's %config has nothing to do > with configurating a system. %config only specifies rpm's behavior upon > handling of backups upon install. First of all, since I didn't even mention the word "configuration" in the above (fully quoted), please stop jumping to conclusions. Secondly if a packager specifies %config* in the specfile he assumes that something outside his control will regularily modify this file, so rpm needs to properly cater for that. And that's what's relevant *the assumption that this file has to be outside of the packager's control*. Now you tell me what kind of files these are. We don't usually %config* stuff under /var (in fcat we don't even mention 99% of the logfiles in package manifests), so that leaves us with ...? Yes, say it ... It's not that difficult ... No? Well, I tried. But you are the one that would %config all bash/python/perl/init scripts anyway, so no use in trying to convince you, I guess. > 2. When a file-system is read-only, rpm can neither install the files, > nor create backups => The fact a file is marked %config is completely > irrelevant. What's the above got to do with anything? Sounds a bit like your X11 quote ... -- Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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