[elrepo-devel] Use of /usr/local in some kmod packages

[Steve Cleveland]

On 03/21/11 15:02, Alan Bartlett wrote:
> On 21 March 2011 16:49, Steve Cleveland<stevec at engr.orst.edu>  wrote:
>
>> I was looking to try out the new kmod-e1000e module, but ran into a
>> problem.  The package sticks the man page in /usr/local/share/man/man7.
>>   In our environment, /usr/local is redirected to a read-only nfs share.
>>
>> It looks like only a few of the epel6 kmod packages have anything there.
>>   I'm just curious if that is an intentional decision?  Or something
>> that could be changed easily?
>
> Hi Steve,
>
> That is unfortunate for you as, obviously, RHEL does not mount a RO
> NFS share at /usr/local/ . . .

I realize that is a local customization that is not typical.  My 
question was only whether putting man pages in /usr/local was a design 
choice by elrepo, or the files just happened to be placed there.  In my 
experience, very few RPM packages put anything in /usr/local.

> With your local variation of RHEL, my advice is to perform the package
> installation with the NFS share unmounted and then delete what has
> been added under /usr/local/ (i.e. share/man/man7/* ).

This is what I've been doing for testing purposes and it seems to be 
working fine.

>
> Regarding EPEL, that is not us and I fail to see how that is relevant. ;-)
>
> Please flag the issue that you are experiencing with your modified
> RHEL system, against the kmod-e1000e package in the ELRepo Project's
> bug tracker [1]. Once it has been logged there, the situation will be
> reviewed when the kmod package is next updated.

I will do that.

Thank you,
  - Steve

>
> Thank you for mentioning your observations.
>
> Regards,
> Alan.
>
> [1] http://elrepo.org/bugs/main_page.php