On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 08:04:11PM -0400, hendrik@topoi.pooq.com wrote: > On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 11:04:48PM +0200, Thibaut Paumard wrote: > > Dear Debian users, > > > > According to the [1]FHS, /usr is supposed to be sharable between > > computers, mounted using e.g. NFS. Likewise, /usr/share is supposed to > > be sharable between machines of different architectures. > > [1] http://www.pathname.com/fhs/ > > > > What would be the preferred way for doing such things under Debian? > > Assume I have several i386 boxes and a few sparcs, how would I install > > Debian on these machines, upgrade, remove packages... while > > sharing /usr/share between all the machines, and /usr between all the > > machines of a given arch? > > > > Best regards, Thibaut. > > Note: my question is out of curiosity, it's not a real life problem. > > I asked this a few months ago about /usr/share -- I have several > machines with different architectires, and got no useful methods. > Apparently the package system just isn't designed for this. > > -- hendrik Hi *, if I were a bit braver, I suggest throwing it out to the debian-devel list as its sort of asking a question that deals with debian-specific things that are not common user needs and goes into some techinical issues that debian developers should be more familiar with then us mere mortals^W^W^Wusers x-) cheers, Kev -- | .''`. == Debian GNU/Linux == | my web site: | | : :' : The Universal | debian.home.pipeline.com | | `. `' Operating System | go to counter.li.org and | | `- http://www.debian.org/ | be counted! #238656 | | my keysever: pgp.mit.edu | my NPO: cfsg.org |
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