The links in /usr/local/etc are created by the Fermi Linux
distribution installation scripts, and are ONLY automated when you
install ups/upd via this method. Therefore, you ARE root when you
do the installation. Not a problem.
The links point to files which are owned by ~products (the
$SETUPS_DIR files), and which are maintained by that account.
If you choose to manually install the bootstrap_coreFUE product from
fnkits (i.e., you bypass the Fermi Linux distribution), then you do
NOT automatically get links in /usr/local/products. You do not need
to be root to install/use ups/upd in the general case.
What kinds of complaints from users have you seen in this regard?
Is there something that we have mis-documented? Is it limited to
Linux, or have we missed something on other platforms as well? To
the best of my knowledge, you do NOT need to be root to install
ups/upd (except for on-site nodes which are supported by the
computing division, who request that you add /usr/local/etc links so
that when we log into your machine, we can find the FUE environment
no matter where you put it).
-- lauri
On Thursday 14 January 1999,
our friend Liz Sexton-Kennedy spaketh thusly:
>
> I will not be at this meeting but I wanted to comment on the following:
>
> > - if possible, let the RPM installation of bootstrap_coreFUE
> > be relocatable; and have the RPM installation script
> > perform any required post-installation "fix-up" for
> > self-consistency. Links in /usr/local/etc could be
> > an option (controlled by an on/off-site flag). Dan
> > Yocum and Connie Sieh are investigating whether or
> > not this is possible.
>
> I would say that if the on/off-site flag idea doesn't work then the
> part of the procedure that puts links in /usr/local/etc should be taken out!
> I know that a lot of people currently involved in this did not take part in
> the requirements gathering phase of the ups/upd design but believe me that
> the requirement that a remote sight be able to install coreFUE WITHOUT being
> root was a MAJOR requirement. In my opinion this was one of the two main
> reasons for the redesign in the first place, so seeing it being taken so
> lightly in this context is surprising to me. I have had several complaints
> from users about this, and I feel somewhat embarrassed about it since I did
> have something to do with the redesign...
>
> -Liz