Jesus M. Gonzalez writes: > If you export the directories in the proper way, you can share a > remote /usr without problems. For instance, if all your machoens are of > the same arch, that's not a problem. If the server is, say, SPARC, while > the clients are i386, it is enough it the server exports, for instance, > /export/debian-i386/usr, while the i386 clients import /usr. In this > case, one of the clients will have permissions for importing > /export/debian-i386/usr rw, and will act as "installation master", while > the rest import it ro.
Does anyone know whether the FHS-discussions have taken this up again? When we discussed in in 1994 the agreement was that nothing could be done about it "yet" in the (then) FSSTND and the versions of the FSSTND/FHS that I have seen since then have never really addressed the issue... But now several of us use a multi-architecture debian installations running... Here's a concrete problem that illustrates what I mean: Linux on alphas is multi-architecture in that one can integrate a good i386 emulator in the kernel (em86). This could exploit an i386 "universe" shared from an i386-linux. Cheers, Kristoffer -- Kristoffer Høgsbro Rose, phd, prof.associé <http://www.ens-lyon.fr/~krisrose> addr. LIP, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, 46 Allée d'Italie, F-69364 Lyon 7 phone +33(0)4 7272 8642, fax +33(0)4 7272 8080 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> pgp f-p: A4D3 5BD7 3EC5 7CA2 924E D21D 126B B8E0 <[EMAIL PROTECTED],tug}.org>