On Mon, Oct 25, 2004 at 07:11:45PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > Hi all, > > apt-spy and pciutils (and possibly others) contain methods to update > a database integral to their operation. > > - `apt-spy update` downloads the list of available Debian mirrors > to /usr/share/apt-spy (see #277816). > > - `update-pciids` downloads a new /usr/share/misc/pci.ids > > I think these are both in violation with the FHS, which states > (Chapter 4, emphasis mine, using caps instead of asterisks for > readability): > > "/usr is shareable, READ-ONLY DATA. That means that /usr should be > shareable between various FHS-compliant hosts and MUST NOT BE > WRITTEN TO."
dpkg should not put files in /usr when it extracts programs either if /usr MUST NOT BE WRITTEN TO... ;) Chris
