Re: .oaf files in share/oaf

[Mathieu Lacage <mathieu gnu org>]

On 23 Jun 2001 18:00:35 +0200, ERDI Gergo wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> First let me quote to FHS:
> 
> 'This hierarchy is intended to be shareable among all architecture
> platforms of a given OS; thus, for example, a site with i386, Alpha, and
> PPC platforms might maintain a single /usr/share directory that is
> centrally-mounted. Note, however, that /usr/share is generally not
> intended to be shared by different OSes or by different releases of the
> same OS. '
> 		http://www.pathname.com/fhs/2.0/fhs-4.8.html
> 
> On 23 Jun 2001, Mathieu Lacage wrote:
> 
> > Are there people really doing this ?
> > This case seems to be really theoretical: many other things will break
> > before that if you do what you describe.
> 
> I'd like to hear the Sun guys' opionon on this, since they are the ones
> who actively use and deploy systems where a single badass server is
> serving a LOT of clients. (I am also expecting Jim Gettys to get on my
> side:)

Well, I am expecting their systems to be homogeneous enough for this to
work as-is. We do this in university with multiple versions of solaris
and multiple kinds of mahines (Sparc 5s and Ultras)... It requires some
careful tweaking but is bearable.

But I might as well be wrong :)


Mathieu

> 
> I do admit that I am not using such a setup (heh I'm not administering
> anything beyond my three boxen at home), and I will certainly not push
> this issue, but the platform change seems like a good time to fix issues
> like that.
> 
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