Can you mount /usr as ro and /usr/share (or as far down the /usr/share path you list as you feel necessary) as rw? I would assume that entails two exports entries as opposed to the current one for all of /usr. Seems like that shouldn't be a real problem since you want update-menus to work and make adjustments across all systems from the one you're running it on.
Brian J. Murrell wrote: > I was doing a system update today. That system has /usr mounted > read-only from the server. This concept in general does not work > terribly well with Mandrake Linux, but with menu it is a disaster. > > That is because the menu data seems to be kept in > /usr/share/gnome/distribution-menus so that any package that runs > /usr/bin/update-menus gets errors like: > > cp: cannot remove >`/usr/share/gnome/distribution-menus/Mandrake-simplified/.directory': Read-only file >system > > It really should be possible to have a farm of Mandrake boxes mount > /usr from a single server. > > b. > >
