Bug#336884: eclipse-platform-common cannot be installed because it tries to write to the /usr/local hierarchy

[Michael Koch]

tag 336884 confirmed
thanks

On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 12:15:14PM -0600, David Bridges wrote:
> Package: eclipse-platform-common
> Version: 3.1.1-3
> Severity: normal
> 
> 
> eclipse-platform-common is configured to write to the /usr/local, this
> hierarchy should not be touched by packages and will not allow
> installation on systems where /usr/local is an NFS mount

I think we will do the same as python2.3 does in
/var/lib/dpkg/info/python2.3.postinst and create the hierarchy in a
postinst script and fail silently when /usr/local is read-only as it
seems to be in your case.

Thanks for your bug report.


Cheers,
Michael
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