Re: [Cooker] menu data in /usr/share is bad

2002-06-19 Thread Digital Wokan
On Tuesday 18 June 2002 22:21, Borsenkow Andrej wrote: Can you mount /usr as ro and /usr/share (or as far down the /usr/share path you list as you feel necessary) as rw? You must be able to mount /usr ro. Period. /usr/share is for system independent _non-volatile_ data. /var is for

RE: [Cooker] menu data in /usr/share is bad

2002-06-19 Thread Borsenkow Andrej
On Tuesday 18 June 2002 22:21, Borsenkow Andrej wrote: Can you mount /usr as ro and /usr/share (or as far down the /usr/share path you list as you feel necessary) as rw? You must be able to mount /usr ro. Period. /usr/share is for system independent _non-volatile_ data. /var is for

Re: [Cooker] menu data in /usr/share is bad

2002-06-19 Thread Frederic Crozat
On Tue, 18 Jun 2002 17:24:42 +0200, Brian J. Murrell wrote: I was doing a system update today. That system has /usr mounted read-only from the server. This concept in general does not work terribly well with Mandrake Linux, but with menu it is a disaster. That is because the menu data

RE: [Cooker] menu data in /usr/share is bad

2002-06-19 Thread Borsenkow Andrej
It is planned to switch to /var/lib/gnome (or something like that, like Debian) when I'll add Mandrake menu support to GNOME 2 (you shouldn't have to wait for too long for that..) Good. What about KDE (off head it is mandrake menu + kdmrc that is rewritten on every boot). -andrej

[Cooker] menu data in /usr/share is bad

2002-06-18 Thread Brian J. Murrell
I was doing a system update today. That system has /usr mounted read-only from the server. This concept in general does not work terribly well with Mandrake Linux, but with menu it is a disaster. That is because the menu data seems to be kept in /usr/share/gnome/distribution-menus so that any

Re: [Cooker] menu data in /usr/share is bad

2002-06-18 Thread Digital Wokan
Can you mount /usr as ro and /usr/share (or as far down the /usr/share path you list as you feel necessary) as rw? I would assume that entails two exports entries as opposed to the current one for all of /usr. Seems like that shouldn't be a real problem since you want update-menus to work

RE: [Cooker] menu data in /usr/share is bad

2002-06-18 Thread Borsenkow Andrej
Can you mount /usr as ro and /usr/share (or as far down the /usr/share path you list as you feel necessary) as rw? You must be able to mount /usr ro. Period. /usr/share is for system independent _non-volatile_ data. /var is for volatile data. You may even think about /var/share - but mostly