>Be clear that replacing /usr/local with a symlink in the form you describe is
>*not* compliant with the FSH.
Actually it is, in both FHS version 2.3 and version 3.0.
http://refspecs.linuxfoundation.org/FHS_3.0/fhs/ch04s02.html
The following directories, or symbolic links to directories, are r
On Fri, Nov 13, 2015 at 9:02 AM, Steve Gaarder wrote:
>
> On Fri, 13 Nov 2015, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
>
>> The /usr/local/ directories are part of the File System Hierarchy, at
>> http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#USRLOCALLOCALHIERARCHY
>>
>> So, yes, it looks like upstream is followi
Steve,
You did not post the whole story to the list, but could it have to do with the
fact that symlinks are protected by default in RHEL7?
# cat /proc/sys/fs/protected_symlinks
1
That means they can only be followed when outside a sticky world-writable
directory, or when the uid of the symlin
What we have done for the last 25 years on Unix and Linux systems to avoid
this problem.
On a separate disk we put /home, /usr/local, /opt to keep the OS install sysem
from rewriting these directories.
There is also a /co-lib disk that we keep all data sheets and parts info etc
In a manufact
On Fri, 13 Nov 2015, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
The /usr/local/ directories are part of the File System Hierarchy, at
http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#USRLOCALLOCALHIERARCHY
So, yes, it looks like upstream is following the File System
Hierarchy. To play nicely with it, you should idea
Just a quick aside comment to say that you are linking to an 11 year-old
version of the confusingly named FHS (Filesystem Hierarchy Standard) defining
the FSH (FileSystem Hierarchy).
The latest version is 3.0, from June this year.
Although your verbatim is unchanged in the current version, here
On Fri, Nov 13, 2015 at 7:28 AM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 2:17 PM, Steve Gaarder
> wrote:
>> I always thought that /usr/local was defined to be an area left alone by the
>> operating system. For many years, we have made it a symlink to a read-only
>> directory in AFS s
On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 2:17 PM, Steve Gaarder wrote:
> I always thought that /usr/local was defined to be an area left alone by the
> operating system. For many years, we have made it a symlink to a read-only
> directory in AFS space. This has worked fine - until now. When I tried to
> update t
