On Wed, Dec 29, 2021 at 8:19 AM Tom Hughes via devel
<devel(a)lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote:
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> I don't see how this is FHS compliant, which in turn would make
> it non-compliant with Fedora Packaging Guidelines, namely:
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https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/packaging-guidelines/#_filesystem_la...
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> The FHS describes /usr here:
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https://refspecs.linuxfoundation.org/FHS_3.0/fhs/ch04.html#purpose18
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> as "/usr is shareable, read-only data" which clearly does not
> apply to a database that changes.
In practice it is read-only data, except when software is being
installed or updated. The FHS is a PITA sometimes, but it's not
advocating for systems that can't be updated or changed..
As I demonstrated later in my email the contents of /var/lib/rpm
do change at other times though.
Tom
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