Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (286 mails)

[Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@xxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 2010-08-05 at 20:03 -0400, Cristian Rodríguez wrote:
> El 05/08/10 15:23, Peter Czanik escribió:
>
> > 1.) does it need to be able to build sles11 packages, or it is not a
> > requirement to be able to sr it to factory?
>
> Factory and SLE 11 are different products, and while it is desirable to
> get it running on it, the only requirement is getting it running in Factory.
>
> > 2.) could anyone with access to SLES 11 SP1 check, why this happens?
>
> This happends due to an "unfortunate" (read crazy) requirement: we have
> to support /usr in a remote system. so all stuff that gets installed in
> /bin /sbin must not be linked to stuff in /usr as it may not be available.

Which breaks many many things. People just don't really care about these
issues, and I wouldn't call that 'supported' in any sense. It's more
like: 'it works if you are lucky'.

I think that /usr on nfs, or even on a different disk should just get a
reality check, and be finally dropped. People who want it, should really
look into making 'read-only /' work, instead of jumping through all
these hoops with /usr -- trying something that will never really
work. :)

Kay


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