Bug 8653 - makewhatis still assumes /usr to be rw
Summary: makewhatis still assumes /usr to be rw
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: man
Version: 6.1
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2000-01-20 11:02 UTC by Thomas Moschny
Modified: 2008-05-01 15:37 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2000-01-20 11:02:53 UTC
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2007-04-21 12:31 UTC, Andy Colman 		no flags Details
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Description Thomas Moschny 2000-01-20 11:02:53 UTC 
This is a problem that has been discussed earlier (see bug 230).
According to the FSSTND, it should be possible to mount /usr read-only.
There are several advantages of doing that. I expect to be able to
configure makewhatis to create /var/catman/.../index.* instead of
/usr/man/.../whatis.
(Please no discussion about the FSSTND.)
Comment 1 Bernhard Rosenkraenzer 2000-10-04 11:13:42 UTC 
It uses /var/cache/man in 7.0
Comment 2 Andy Colman 2007-04-21 12:31:06 UTC 
Created attachment 153238 [details]
Bug 8653
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