[Pkg-pciutils-discuss] Bug#278479: reopening

[dann frazier]

reopen 278479
thanks

hey,
 I don't see how the FHS can be interpreted in this way, and the link
to the sourceforge mail archive is broken, so I'm reopening this bug.

The first section of Chapter 4. "The /usr Hierarchy" in the FHS says:

 "/usr is the second major section of the filesystem. /usr is
 shareable, read-only data. That means that /usr should be shareable
 between various FHS-compliant hosts and must not be written to. Any
 information that is host-specific or varies with time is stored
 elsewhere."

pciids dbase is certainly something that varies with time, so it must
not be written in /usr, but should be stored elsewhere. I also know of
no counterexample to this inside Debian.

The local administrator isn't even granted permission under the FHS to
make changes under /usr, as far as I can tell, with the exclusion of
the /usr/local hierarchy.

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dann frazier | HP Open Source and Linux Organization