[Asterisk-Dev] Install destination on Solaris

[Bob Goddard]

On Thursday 17 Nov 2005 19:28, tim panton wrote:
> On 17 Nov 2005, at 17:25, Kevin P. Fleming wrote:
> > Simon Lockhart wrote:
> >> Yes. There's the Sun way, and then the way that everyone else does
> >> it. If you
> >> take a look at sunfreeware.com, you'll find that everything
> >> installs into
> >> /usr/local because that's where everyone who wasn't indoctrinated
> >> into the Sun
> >> way of doing things places stuff.
> >
> > Understandable... I don't know of any good solution to this problem
> > then. If enough Solaris users get together and decide the default
> > install paths should be different, then we can change it, but I'd
> > like to see a reasonable consensus on the topic before I tell the
> > Sun people that we are disregarding their suggestion :-)
>
> The history here is that in classic Solaris /usr can be mounted read
> only by a roomful of diskless devices.
> This means that you didn't put _anything_ in /usr that hadn't come
> off the OS disk.

Hence the reason why /usr/local usually went on a separate partition.


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