On Tue, Dec 17, 2002 at 08:29:44AM -0800, Grant Bowman wrote: > After reading the content of this bug, I'm curious which rules would be > broken by moving the necessary libraries to /lib from /usr/lib. I can > understand why you have moved this bug to "won't fix" but without some > kind of solution users who use NSS special lookups like LDAP will always > have problems with the /usr filesystem mounting.
> Is the right solution for all NSS libnss-* packages to not be in /usr > due to these kinds of conflicts? Would static linking of NSS > dependencies break rules as well? Should a new rule be made for basic > system naming setup? What information are you trying to store in LDAP that is so essential to the system prior to mounting of /usr? It is entirely valid for /usr to be located on a network share (NFS), so you're not really guaranteed to be able to access your LDAP server (which obviously isn't running locally either, with no /usr) until about the same time as /usr is mounted. If you have records that are needed by the system prior to mounting of /usr, these ought to be stored in a local database backend such as /etc/passwd. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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