Subj : Official notice
To : Daniel Path
From : Vincent Coen
Date : Fri Feb 25 2022 01:54 am
Hello Daniel!
Thursday February 24 2022 20:23, you wrote to me:
> Hello Vincent,
> 23 Feb 22 14:46, you wrote to Sean Dennis:
VC>> Hello Sean!
VC>> Tuesday February 22 2022 22:13, you wrote to All:
>>> Hi everyone,
>>> This is an official release from the MBSE Development Team.
>>> If you install MBSE in any other directory besides /opt, we will
>>> not support this.
>>> From the MBSE docs ("MBSE BBS Basic Installation"):
>>> "MBSE BBS is default installed in /opt/mbse [on GNU/Linux]. It
>>> should be possible to install the bbs in a different location but
>>> this is not supported. Many have tried, and and only a few have
>>> succeeded. See Filesystem Hierarchy Standard for more info."
>>>
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filesystem_Hierarchy_Standard
>>> TL;DR: Install MBSE anywhere but /opt and you're your own tech
>>> support.
VC>> What official release ?
VC>> What, where, when !
VC>> For many years I have been installing mbse at /home/mbse using
VC>> ./configure --prefix=/home/mbse followed by a modified version of
VC>> SETUP.sh where all instances of /opt replaced by /home.
VC>> No issues what so ever.
VC>> Why do I use /home?
VC>> Because I have different distros or just different versions of a
VC>> distro and do not want to create duplicates of the entire mbse
VC>> directories of more than 16Gb when ever I have to test a new
VC>> distro version prior to installing it over a production system.
VC>> Michael had no issues with me and others doing so and DID OFFER
VC>> FULL SUPPORT.
VC>> So what's your problem ?
> mkdir /opt/mbse;mount -o bind /home/mbse /opt/mbse
> problem solved
> Regards,
> --
> dp
Only if I really want to use /opt :
I have other software that works in conjunction with mbse and a stack of
others
that might have issues where mbse sits and yes I do NOT like using /opt as
that
can be trashed by distro updates - at least in my previous experiences.
More importantly as mbse runs as a specific user and all users work via /home
it would be silly if not possibly dangerous changing it.
My systems runs a large amount of differing systems some native and some not.
Thanks for your idea for getting around it and will take another look when
time
allows as I am up to my neck in programming multi projects that I am really
trying to complete soon-ish but some under tight time lines.
Vincent
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