On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 3:28 PM, Ben Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 2:54 PM, Tom Buskey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > None of the package systems work well with /usr/local on NFS. > > FWIW and FYI, the Linux filesystem hierarchy standard (FHS) is > designed such that /usr can be replicated out, so you can do things > like a read-only NFS export or rsync for centralized software > maintenance. But...
Sure. But build the default sudo. It wants /usr/local/etc/sudoers which you will probably want to modify. FWIW - I've never done an NFS /usr/local for Linux. It was for Ultrix, SunOS, HP-UX, OSF/1 and Solaris. > > And if I update and NFS /usr/local I can break all the systems at once. > > ... that doesn't eliminate the need for testing, of course. :) > > Some of the stuff you build will only fully run in /usr/local. And most stuff doesn't have an uninstall. And some assume /usr/local isn't on an NFS drive nowadays. Package systems usually keep thier data in /var which isn't on a shared NFS drive and the configuration in /etc..... As I said earlier, the need for NAS mounted application stores has gone away with $1 / MB disk drives. If the system has unused GB on the OS disk, there's room for locally installled stuff in a proper package. Good riddance to the NFS /usr/local
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