Future: fhs 2.3 compliance for fc3

Panu Matilainen pmatilai at welho.com
Thu Apr 1 21:16:09 UTC 2004


On Thu, 2004-04-01 at 13:54, Dave Jones wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-03-31 at 23:38, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> 
> > A possibly related discussion; we've been wondering if we can make the
> > OS image read-only (mounting it that way, or via selinux).
> 
> If we do this, apt/yum/up2date/rpm will also need smarts to remount rw 
> when upgrading. Having to do this by hand each time would annoy the hell
> out of me enough to just make it permanently rw again.

That's trivial to do in apt with a little Lua-script plugged into right
slots - check http://laiskiainen.org/apt/lua/remount/
(yes there are error cases it doesn't handle, but hey, it's just a silly
example...)

	- Panu -





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