Re: ro-mounted file partitions and rpms

[Jeff Johnson <n3npq jbj gmail com>]

On Feb 10, 2007, at 2:29 AM, Tony Earnshaw wrote:

> Hi list,
>
> Inspired by a very recent (irate) Suse post to the Courier IMAP  
> list, I ask the following of the main vendor packages here.
>
> Quoting a line of the posting out of context, the @suse.de poster  
> writes, complaining of the Courier install file hierarchy:
>
> "/usr might be mounted read-only according to FHS, and is not  
> expected to contain variable or machine-specific data." This in  
> respect to Courier IMAP certificate .pem files within /usr that  
> have to able to be be generated on the fly.
>
> Ok, the standard %{prefix} for rpm installs is /usr. AFAICS, at no  
> stage during an rpm install is there ever any attempt to mount and  
> remount /usr (or any other file hierarchy which might be mounted  
> ro) to enable installation. How does an rpm install cope with ro  
> files systems such as /usr?

It makes no sense to talk about "installing" and "RO", nor is there  
any current
means known to remount a file system in use (like /usr) using current  
kernel
functionality automagically.

Move the cert to a path other than /usr. This is a FHS, not a Courier  
or rpm install,
problem.

73 de Jeff