On Fri, 13 Nov 2015, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:

> The /usr/local/ directories are part of the File System Hierarchy, at
> http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#USRLOCALLOCALHIERARCHY
>
> So, yes, it looks like upstream is following the File System
> Hierarchy. To play nicely with it, you should ideally, replace the
> subdirectories in /usr/local/ with individual symlinks.
>
They *are* symlinks, but symlinks to a read-only area in AFS space.

Looking at the filesystem RPM, it assumes that it may be the first thing 
being installed in a new system, and (re)creates the basic file system 
structure.  It seems ok with the symlink, but blows up when it can't chmod 
it.

Steve Gaarder
System Administrator, Dept of Mathematics
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA
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