severity 340608 important
thanks

On Fri, Nov 25, 2005 at 01:41:18PM +0100, Pierre THIERRY wrote:
> Scribit Steve Langasek dies 25/11/2005 hora 00:56:
> > > According to the FHS, ``/usr is shareable, read-only data''. So FAI
> > > should not by default try to write anything in /usr and place it's
> > > nfsroot there. See #309554.
> > Could you elaborate on why you believe this is an FHS violation?

> My /usr is only rw when doing dpkg operations. After having successfully
> installed the fai packaged, running the fai-setup -v fails because /usr
> is again ro.

> I think the fact that a user-triggered operation has to write in /usr is
> the point why there is FHS violation.

I certainly agree that it's desirable to never have anything written to /usr
except by the package management system and to be able to keep it read-only
otherwise, but I don't find that the FHS mandates this.

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