Re: "Strange" question: what is the purpose of /home !?

2000-03-19 Thread Chris Abbey
At 19:06 3/19/00 +0300, Michael Ju. Tokarev wrote: >One small(?) relatted question: is it possible to mount / readonly? >At least with mount command itself, it seemed to be impossible, as >mount tries to modify /etc/mtab, and initscripts directs it to do so; there are a few chunks of the file spa

Re: "Strange" question: what is the purpose of /home !?

2000-03-19 Thread Michael Ju. Tokarev
John Summerfield wrote: > [] > > I agree that /home is the wrong place for apache and maybe samba. Recently I post a bugreport about samba via bugzilla (for samba, this was really a bug, since samba does not need any dedicated "home" at all), and it is now ok (since Tue Oct 05 1999, made by Bil

Re: RPM question -- setting info from environment

2000-03-19 Thread Michael Ju. Tokarev
Chmouel Boudjnah wrote: > > "Michael Ju. Tokarev" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > It controlled by "%define lfs 0" in .spec. Can I say, for example, > > "rpm --rebuild kernel-...src.rpm lfn=1" ? > > rpm --rebuild --define 'lfs 1' k*src.rpm That can seems strange. It seemed that this --defi

Re: RPM question -- setting info from environment

2000-03-19 Thread John Summerfield
> Hi! > > Two (little?) rpm questions. > > Is it possible within .spec file to define some rpm variables > (for example, %requires, maybe %release) based on something > from running system? Example of usage here is trivial: No. I tried and it worked, sort of. It got the required value when used

Re: "Strange" question: what is the purpose of /home !?

2000-03-19 Thread John Summerfield
> It is a bit strange for the first time. > But is it a bit more complicated the next time... :) > > The question actually is about some packages. > Just to remember, one of them is apache (that installs > into /home/httpd). Another _was_ samba that used /home/samba > for some strange purpose (s

Re: RPM question -- setting info from environment

2000-03-19 Thread Chmouel Boudjnah
"Michael Ju. Tokarev" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It controlled by "%define lfs 0" in .spec. Can I say, for example, > "rpm --rebuild kernel-...src.rpm lfn=1" ? rpm --rebuild --define 'lfs 1' k*src.rpm -- MandrakeSoft Inchttp://www.mandrakesoft.com Pasadena, CA USA