Hi, everyone! I do not know why this happens, but just want to let you know On Tue, 25 Aug 1998, Michael Lankton wrote:
I have always used a 300 meg /opt partition, but I think when 5.3 shows up I will do away with it and just symlink /opt to /usr/local.
ymlink /opt --> /usr/local does not always work One of my friends tried to install word perfect 7 rpm supplied with RH5. His /opt was a directory in the root fs. Word Perfect would always attempt to install itself into /opt. However, there was not enough space in / We removed /opt directory and created symlink /opt to /home/username. Attempted to run rpm -i wp7.rpm This created a directory /opt leaving the /opt@ symlink untouched. The only way we could get around this was by umounting /home and mounting it under /opt for the time of installation. I did not test it myself (I was helping him over the phone), but I think this can be tested with a netscape rpm. Maybe I am not aware of something with symlinks, but this is what happened. alexm - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e