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Re: Filesystem package messes with /usr/local
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Nico Kadel-Garcia <[log in to unmask]>
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Nico Kadel-Garcia <[log in to unmask]>
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Fri, 13 Nov 2015 07:28:58 -0500
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On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 2:17 PM, Steve Gaarder <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> I always thought that /usr/local was defined to be an area left alone by the
> operating system.  For many years, we have made it a symlink to a read-only
> directory in AFS space.  This has worked fine - until now. When I tried to
> update the "filesystem" package, it failed because it tried to do chmods on
> (at least) /usr/local/bin and /usr/local/etc.  Why is it doing this?  Is
> /usr/local no longer truly local?
>
> thanks,

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