On Feb 10, 2007, at 2:29 AM, Tony Earnshaw wrote:
Hi list,
Inspired by a very recent (irate) Suse post to the Courier IMAP
list, I ask the following of the main vendor packages here.
Quoting a line of the posting out of context, the @suse.de poster
writes, complaining of the Courier install file hierarchy:
"/usr might be mounted read-only according to FHS, and is not
expected to contain variable or machine-specific data." This in
respect to Courier IMAP certificate .pem files within /usr that
have to able to be be generated on the fly.
Ok, the standard %{prefix} for rpm installs is /usr. AFAICS, at no
stage during an rpm install is there ever any attempt to mount and
remount /usr (or any other file hierarchy which might be mounted
ro) to enable installation. How does an rpm install cope with ro
files systems such as /usr?
It makes no sense to talk about "installing" and "RO", nor is there
any current
means known to remount a file system in use (like /usr) using current
kernel
functionality automagically.
Move the cert to a path other than /usr. This is a FHS, not a Courier
or rpm install,
problem.
73 de Jeff
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