mouting some filesystems readonly (was: Re: /usr/etc)

[Arthur Korn <arthur@korn.ch>]

Hi

Bernhard R. Link schrieb:
> I have an old slink-box at home with /usr readonly. dpkg
> just relizes, that it can not write and install nothing, but there was
> no damage, when I forgot to remount it before installing. (Hey, an dpkg
> asking to remount would be just cool).

You can tell apt (in /etc/apt/apt.conf, don't know the exact
parameter anymore) to remount /usr rw before installation and
ro again after installation. I did this with potato-pre? and it
worked great.

ciao,
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