Bug 161298 – sys-apps/usbutils-0.71-r2 FHS violation (writes to /usr)

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Ulrich Müller 2007-01-10 11:13:28 UTC]

usbutils-0.71-r2 uses a cron job to update /usr/share/misc/usb.ids. This does not work for a read-only /usr partition.

According to the FHS 2.3 (chpater 4):
| /usr is shareable, read-only data. That means that /usr should
| be shareable between various FHS-compliant hosts and must not be
| written to. Any information that is host-specific or varies with
| time is stored elsewhere.

usb.ids should be moved to /var/lib/misc (probably with a symlink to its old location).

Another question is, if it is a good idea to unconditionally enable that periodic update.

[Comment 1 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2007-01-10 12:10:15 UTC]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 161296 ***

[Comment 2 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2007-01-10 12:10:31 UTC]

Dupe.

[Comment 3 Ulrich Müller 2007-01-10 13:36:54 UTC]

Different package, therefore different bug.
Reopening.

[Comment 4 SpanKY 2007-01-19 04:12:10 UTC]

but the solution is the exact same

[Comment 5 Ulrich Müller 2007-01-19 08:52:32 UTC]

(In reply to comment #4)
> but the solution is the exact same

So how about reopening bug #156183 (which is IMHO not "RESOLVED FIXED") and marking this one as a duplicate of it? ;-)

[Comment 6 SpanKY 2007-02-10 00:41:30 UTC]

update-usbids no longer tries to write to /usr if it is read-only

[Comment 7 SpanKY 2007-04-13 09:42:51 UTC]

cronjob is no longer enabled by default ... if /usr is readonly, the file is not updated