On Wed, 2005-12-28 at 17:43, John Summerfied wrote:
/bin, /sbin and /lib are for single user base system commands and their required libraries.
In case no one has mentioned it yet, these are the things that may be needed before /usr is mounted, given that /usr can be a separate partition.
More to the point, on another machine. And/or shared with other systems.
Regardless, the big issue is that all the tools needed for booting and mounting it must be in root partition - and in the shared case that means bringing up the network too.
And more to the point, where third-party RPMs fit into the picture. In RedHat-land they are almost always made to fit into the vendor-provided scheme, clobbering system files if there is a conflict. Sometimes that's what you
Never clobbering vendor-provided files unless, you the system administrator, make them do so.
I'm not sure I understand. How do you install updated or modified libraries from a third-party yum repository without clobbering the system files?
And it's perfectly possible to make relocatable rpms that will install almost anywhere.
Where do you find them?