[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 jonathan.underwood at gmail.com  2007-10-08 19:46 EST -------
(In reply to comment #8)
> (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.
> 

Aha, crystal clear, thanks for taking the time to explain.

> > 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.

OK, I understand. I think in this case Ports.pm doesn't need %config though - it
should certainly be in /var/lib/shorewall-perl but it isn't editable - it merely
reflects local state.

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