Re: support for merged /usr in Debian
[Posted January 6, 2016 by n8willis]
| From: |
| Ian Jackson <ijackson-AT-chiark.greenend.org.uk> |
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| Ansgar Burchardt <ansgar-AT-debian.org> |
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| Re: support for merged /usr in Debian |
| Date: |
| Fri, 1 Jan 2016 14:16:49 +0000 |
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| <22150.35409.315636.636179@chiark.greenend.org.uk> |
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Ansgar Burchardt writes ("Re: support for merged /usr in Debian"):
> md@Linux.IT (Marco d'Itri) writes:
> > Thanks to my conversion program in usrmerge there is no need for a flag
> > day, archive rebuilds or similar complexity and we can even continue to
> > support unmerged systems.
>
> Is there any use case that requires supporting unmerged systems?
Someone has already mentioned mounting /usr ro. But one generally has
to keep /etc rw. I don't think that the right way to address this is
to make /etc a mount point.
Anotheer example: I have a system which does a rather hackish NFS root
boot. It has its own / but uses /usr from the fileserver. This has
worked surprisingly well for a long time.
Ian.
