On Wed, Dec 29, 2021 at 02:13:19PM -0500, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > On Wed, Dec 29, 2021 at 12:48 PM Gordon Messmer > <gordon.mess...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > On 12/29/21 07:26, Vitaly Zaitsev via devel wrote: > > > On 29/12/2021 16:01, Ben Cotton wrote: > > >> Currently, the RPM databases is located in `/var`. Let's move it to > > >> `/usr`. The move is already under way in rpm-ostree-based > > >> installations, and in (open)SUSE. > > > > > > It will break FHS compatibility. /usr must contain read-only data. > > > > > > If /usr really is read-only, then it probably doesn't matter where the > > rpmdb is, since packages can't be installed (generally). > > There are plenty of packages which do not write to /usr/, especially > third party add-ons over in /opt/ .
It makes more sense for /var to be in a separate volume from /usr, than for /usr and /opt to be in separate volumes though. Provided /usr and /opt are in the same volume, then snapshotting and rolling back works as expected. -- Michel Alexandre Salim profile: https://keyoxide.org/mic...@michel-slm.name
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