Bug 757421

Summary: KDE is not FHS-compliant
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Reporter: John Summerfield <debian>
Component: kdebaseAssignee: Than Ngo <than>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Desktop QE <desktop-qa-list>
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Version: 5.8CC: debian
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Description John Summerfield 2011-11-26 23:33:52 UTC
Description of problem:
FHS states
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 Purpose

/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.
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Note LSB is offline atm, so I can't check whether it's volated too.

kdebase-3.5.4-24.el5 stores configuration files in /usr/share/config/

It became clear that these are not imutable when I used kcmshell kdm to change some options, and the following file was changed:
06:36 [summer@penguin ~]$ ls -l /usr/share/config/kdm/kdmrc
-rw-r--r-- 1 root 1855 Nov 27 06:29 /usr/share/config/kdm/kdmrc


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How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install a KDE desktop
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Actual results:
Configuration files to /etc

Expected results:
Configuration files to /usr/share

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Comment 1 RHEL Program Management 2014-03-07 13:42:19 UTC
This bug/component is not included in scope for RHEL-5.11.0 which is the last RHEL5 minor release. This Bugzilla will soon be CLOSED as WONTFIX (at the end of RHEL5.11 development phase (Apr 22, 2014)). Please contact your account manager or support representative in case you need to escalate this bug.

Comment 2 RHEL Program Management 2014-06-02 13:16:53 UTC
Thank you for submitting this request for inclusion in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. We've carefully evaluated the request, but are unable to include it in RHEL5 stream. If the issue is critical for your business, please provide additional business justification through the appropriate support channels (https://access.redhat.com/site/support).