On Wed, 16 Apr 1997, Portuesi Simone wrote: > I've to install debian linux in 4 PCs here at the university (now they > have an old slackware). My idea was to have one of them to export users > and their directories plus a directory with apps not in the debian > distribution (a sort of non-local). Up to here no problems arise. > But I'd like also to share man pages, info files and documentation > across the 4 systems but that will break the packaging handling of > Debian (ex. removing a package in one PC will remouve all the > documentation and help on the others), is there a work-around? > In particular is there a way to inform the debian packaging system of > shared files ? I maintain a Debian system with a workstation as NFS server. That means the /usr tree resides on a drive mounted via NFS (ro) and some parts of var resides also there. I linked /var/texmf and /var/catman on a NFS mounted drive (rw). This works fine for me and I'm intended to use this server from several other Linux PCs (but not tried yet).
I have to mention that I had serious trouble while installing and if you have problems don't hesitate to ask me special problems. But once installed (using some tricky workarounds) it works fine (but slightly slower). > Also is there a method to install part of a Debian package in a > different directory? (I think the only one is to modify packages by > hand). That's not necessary in any way. The only thing is to link some files in /etc to a common tree but I think this is not necessary and too much work. > Even if it is complex it would be nice if future versions of Debian > would permit such kind of installation or have tools to permit it. OK, tell me your problem. I think you will cope with them with the actual version. Andreas. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
