In foo.debian-user, Will Lowe wrote: > What tools do people here use to administrate a network of Debian > machines? I can handle normal system/network administration, but what > problems does dpkg introduce? > > Eg: If machine B mounts /usr from machine A, how do I keep dpkg > from screaming at me when I dpkg -i something on machine B that tries to > put files in /usr?
dpkg does not currently handle this. There is the possiblity that you could hack a solution with the libtricks package to make dpkg think that /usr is writable... (try at own risk). There are snippets of similar discussions on debian-admintool if you feel like combing thru it. -Mitch
