Re: F36 Change: Relocate RPM database to /usr (System-Wide Change proposal)

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On Wed, Dec 29, 2021 at 02:13:19PM -0500, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 29, 2021 at 12:48 PM Gordon Messmer
> <gordon.messmer@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > On 12/29/21 07:26, Vitaly Zaitsev via devel wrote:
> > > On 29/12/2021 16:01, Ben Cotton wrote:
> > >> Currently, the RPM databases is located in `/var`. Let's move it to
> > >> `/usr`. The move is already under way in rpm-ostree-based
> > >> installations, and in (open)SUSE.
> > >
> > > It will break FHS compatibility. /usr must contain read-only data.
> >
> >
> > If /usr really is read-only, then it probably doesn't matter where the
> > rpmdb is, since packages can't be installed (generally).
> 
> There are plenty of packages which do not write to /usr/, especially
> third party add-ons over in /opt/ .

It makes more sense for /var to be in a separate volume from /usr, than
for /usr and /opt to be in separate volumes though.

Provided /usr and /opt are in the same volume, then snapshotting and
rolling back works as expected.

-- 
Michel Alexandre Salim
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