Just to clear things up a little: With SL6 and earlier, we had /usr/local
be a symlink into afs space. With SL7, we changed it so that the
subdirectories (bin, etc, lib, lib64, include, sbin) are symlinks. This
avoided some problems that came up with installation, but we still have
trouble wh
On Sat, Nov 14, 2015 at 1:56 AM, Benjamin Lefoul
wrote:
>>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
>
>
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Sent: Saturday, November 14, 2015 1:38 AM
To: Steve Gaarder
Cc: SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS@FNAL.GOV
Subject: Re: Filesystem package messes with /usr/local
On Fri,
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
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Sent: Friday, November 13, 2015 3:02 PM
To: Nico Kadel-Garcia
Cc: SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS@FNAL.GOV
Subject: Re: Filesystem package messes with /usr/local
On Fri, 13 Nov 2015, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
> The /usr/local/ directories are part of the File System Hierarchy, a
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
-Garcia
[nka...@gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, November 13, 2015 1:36 PM
To: Steve Gaarder
Cc: SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS@FNAL.GOV
Subject: Re: Filesystem package messes with /usr/local
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
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
On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 7:17 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
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