Bluefin-LTS Allow Writing to /usr/local

Bluefin
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Hello ublue community,

This may be for a good reason (That I don’t know), but /usr/local is not writable on the Bluefin LTS build.

I’m really excited for the Bluefin LTS build, but I do prefer to have a writable /usr/local/ directory. For a temporary work-around, read on…

I understand if you don’t want to include this, but I thought I’d share a way of setting it up that I modified from a source online.

The source is here .

I modified that .mount file for this usecase.

So if you want to enable writable /usr/local, you can do this (Best to Copy + Paste this):

sudo cp -a /usr/local /var/home/.usr-local

cat << EOF | sudo tee /etc/systemd/system/usr-local.mount >/dev/null
[Unit]
Description=Make /usr/local Write-able
DefaultDependencies=no
Before=sockets.target
After=ostree-remount.service
BindsTo=var-home.mount

[Mount]
What=/var/home/.usr-local
Where=/usr/local
Options=bind
Type=none

[Install]
WantedBy=local-fs.target
EOF

sudo systemctl daemon-reload

sudo systemctl enable --now usr-local.mount

Please let me know if anyone is interested in this or if there is a specific reason you’ve disabled this functionality by default, as it makes using Immutable Distros kind of painful for me… (Again, I could be doing it wrong!)

Thanks for all your wonderful work on UBlue including Aurora, Bazzite, Bluefin and Bluefin-LTS!

  • jedi453 / Dan

EDIT 1: reworded some stuff for clarification

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We’ll look into this.

Please file issues in the issue tracker and not on the forum, thanks!

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Thanks @j0rge ,

Sorry I just didn’t know if this was intentionally done. I can file an issue later.

Thanks,

  • jedi453 / Dan
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Got it here!

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