move root's home to /home/root

[hhardy]

It would be helpful for school administrators & "power users" if the contents of root's home directory and in particular .bash_history could be flagged such that it would not get nuked on upgrades.

hhardy originally also wrote:

It would also be helpful if the list of installed rpm packages could be maintained through an upgrade. Not necessarily the rpm's themselves but a list of the rpm's in the order they were previously installed/deinstalled so the system could be more easily restored to a similar state to what it was pre-upgrade.

This latter paragraph is #6432

[cscott]

Closely related to #6432. Root's directory could be saved by moving it to /home/root, if that is desirable.

[gregorio]

Milestone Never Assigned deleted

[cscott]

Retitling and narrowing, since #6432 has been mostly addressed.

[cscott]

Patch pushed to pilgrim for joyride; this is probably *not* going into 8.2.

Patch needed to olpc-utils to make sure /home/root exists after upgrade:

http://dev.laptop.org/git?p=users/cscott/olpc-utils;a=commitdiff;h=6176834f825e682a88fc0e3796b4fdb08e3a0a6c

Reassigning to mstone.

[cscott]

Note that this move conforms to the FHS as I read it:

http://tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Filesystem-Hierarchy/html/root.html

Since the pilgrim patch:

http://dev.laptop.org/git?p=projects/pilgrim;a=commitdiff;h=cc3bf640473157ea45104d60ffb604a30e08d5cf

creates a symlink for /root, and the standard explicitly leaves it up to us where root's home directory 'really' lives.

[erikos]

I get 'No directory root' when logging into a virtual console.

[cscott]

erikos: yeah, that's why this bug is assigned to michael. The olpc-configure patch attached above would fix that.

[dsd]

This is implemented in olpc-os-builder. need to add that olpc-utils patch for the 10.1.2 release.

[dsd]

olpc-utils-1.0.27 ready for next build

[Quozl]

olpc-utils-1.0.27 is present in os851 on XO-1.5 and XO-1, but root shell default directory is still /root in both Terminal and text console.

[Quozl]

• os850, the /root directory on XO-1 does not exist, one sees No directory /root'' error on text console during login.
• os851, the /root directory on XO-1 does exist, and no error is reported.

Lacked a test case to resolve ambiguity. Ticket description says move root's home to /home/root.

[dsd]

/root is a symlink to /home/root (and has been in all builds made by olpc-os-builder), so that part of the work was effectively done ages ago.

The remaining part of the ticket was to ensure the symlink gets created on upgrades, which was brought to our attention in #10278.

So your test case is: install 8.2.1, perform olpc-update to 10.1.2 os851, and ensure /root exists as a symlink to /home/root.

[Quozl]

Installed 8.2.1, did olpc-update to os851, verified /root is a symlink to home/root. Closing.