[Bug 321711] Review Request: shorewall-perl - Perl-based compiler for Shoreline Firewall

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Summary: Review Request: shorewall-perl - Perl-based compiler for Shoreline Firewall


https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=321711





------- Additional Comments From ville.skytta at iki.fi  2007-10-08 02:48 EST -------
(In reply to comment #6)
> 
> However, I am sure there is some aspect of the issue I am missing, because doing
> an installation/upgrade of an rpm with a read only /usr wouldn't work anyway,
> and so I don't actually understand what is wrong with creating Ports.pm
> somewhere on /usr? [Please note, I'm not challenging what you say, as I am sure
> you're right, but there is something I am missing]

You're missing what %_netsharedpath does.  For example %_netsharedpath /usr
makes rpm not drop any files under /usr but just assume the files it'd drop
there are already there (useful for eg. a central NFS-shared /usr - the server
installs rpms with files there, clients install the same RPMs locally but don't
touch anything in /usr).  However, %_netsharedpath only affects files in package
payloads, scriptlets need to be taken care of by packagers.

> Shouldn't the LTSP packager be getting his changes to these files
> incororated into the setup package, rather than changing those files on package
> installation?

Possibly (but that might be harder than it seems).  But that's not my point, the
point is that more that those files are marked as %config and thus supposedly...
configurable, modifiable.

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