On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 10:03:28PM +0000, Stuart Henderson wrote: > On 2014-07-18, Antoine Jacoutot <ajacou...@bsdfrog.org> wrote: > > On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 12:16:00PM -0400, RD Thrush wrote: > >> For many years, I have reliably used read-only partitions for /usr and > >> /usr/local. -current sysmerge breaks that assumption. > > > > I don't think we ever officially supported a RO /usr... > > the FAQ is fairly official..though, see my comment below. > > >> sha256: ///usr/share/sysmerge/examplessum: Read-only file system > > slashslashslash! (untidy extra /'s is a pet hate :) > > >> +<li><a href="#20140716">2014/07/16 - sysmerge requires writeable /usr > >> partition</a> > > this one may make sense, but it's "writable", only 1 e > > >> Index: faq4.html > >> =================================================================== > >> RCS file: /pub2/cvsroot/OpenBSD/www/faq/faq4.html,v > >> retrieving revision 1.339 > >> diff -u -p -u -p -r1.339 faq4.html > >> --- faq4.html 15 Jul 2014 00:24:32 -0000 1.339 > >> +++ faq4.html 18 Jul 2014 15:58:50 -0000 > >> @@ -2331,9 +2331,7 @@ Some of the things that end up here (and > >> This is where most of OpenBSD resides. > >> Program binaries, libraries, documentation, manual pages, etc. are all > >> located in the <tt>/usr</tt> directory. > >> -The files in this mount point are relatively unchanging -- in many > >> -cases, you could easily mount the <tt>/usr</tt> partition read-only with > >> -no other system changes until your next upgrade or update. > >> +The files in this mount point are relatively unchanging. > > I would argue that sysmerge is covered by "until your next upgrade or update".
Do note that sysmerge always run mtree so it really always expected a RW system :-) -- Antoine
