On Sat, 18.04.09 01:02, Kevin Kofler (kevin.kofler@xxxxxxxxx) wrote: > > Lennart Poettering wrote: > > On Debian /etc doesn't need to be rw. And it wouldn't be too difficult > > to allow the same on Fedora. > > Mounting /etc read-only makes no sense at all, config files are designed to > be writable. Oh, it makes a lot of sense. I mean, most config files are only touched during installation and during package upgrades. Otherwise they are practically read-only. During package upgrades or if the admin really wants to change something he can temporarily remount / to rw without a problem. This is eprfectly well supported by Debian. Now, the only stumbling block for this is that some files (like /etc/resolv.conf) are rewritten from time to time. But that's a bad bad misdesign anyway and we should really get rid of /etc/resolv.conf. In the meantime one can do what Debian did and make resolv.conf a symlink to a writable location. > Relatedly, files which are not intended to be reconfigured by the system > administrator belong into /usr/share, not /etc. Unfortunately, quite some > software gets this wrong (basically, any file in /etc not marked %config is > a sign that something is abusing /etc). You are going to have fun with that. Succeeding with moving stuff like /etc/services to /usr/share is even more unlikely than pushing the removal of /usr through in Fedora. Lennart -- Lennart Poettering Red Hat, Inc. lennart [at] poettering [dot] net ICQ# 11060553 http://0pointer.net/lennart/ GnuPG 0x1A015CC4 -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
