[23162] in Athena Bugs
Re: linux 9.2.10: update of "filesystem" package unpacks in /var/local
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Garry Zacheiss)
Tue Jul 22 04:25:52 2003
Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2003 04:25:50 -0400 (EDT)
Message-Id: <200307220825.h6M8PoZx013148@brad-majors.mit.edu>
From: Garry Zacheiss <zacheiss@MIT.EDU>
To: Angie Kelic <sly@MIT.EDU>
CC: bugs@MIT.EDU
In-reply-to: "[23126] in Athena Bugs"
I think this got adequately hashed out over zephyr, but for the record:
/var/local (and /usr/local) are both created by the vanilla Redhat
filesystem package, and make bad choices of mountpoints for weird
filesystems. RPM doesn't "know" that the permissions on /var/local
aren't important; if it was the permissions on /usr/bin that failed to
be set, it could be a significant problem.
Greg recommended you pick a different mountpoint that isn't owned by any
Redhat packages.
Garry
