gnuplot woes

[Tom Buskey]

On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 3:28 PM, Ben Scott <dragonhawk at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 2:54 PM, Tom Buskey <tom at buskey.name> wrote:
> > None of the package systems work well with /usr/local on NFS.
>
>   FWIW and FYI, the Linux filesystem hierarchy standard (FHS) is
> designed such that /usr can be replicated out, so you can do things
> like a read-only NFS export or rsync for centralized software
> maintenance.  But...


Sure.  But build the default sudo.  It wants /usr/local/etc/sudoers which
you will probably want to modify.

FWIW - I've never done an NFS /usr/local for Linux.  It was for Ultrix,
SunOS, HP-UX, OSF/1 and Solaris.


> > And if I update and NFS /usr/local I can break all the systems at once.
>
> ... that doesn't eliminate the need for testing, of course.  :)
>
>
Some of the stuff you build will only fully run in /usr/local.  And most
stuff doesn't have an uninstall.  And some assume /usr/local isn't on an NFS
drive nowadays.  Package systems usually keep thier data in /var which isn't
on a shared NFS drive and the configuration in /etc.....

As I said earlier, the need for NAS mounted application stores has gone away
with $1 / MB disk drives.  If the system has unused GB on the OS disk,
there's room for locally installled stuff in a proper package.  Good
riddance to the NFS /usr/local
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