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[Proxying a message from Anders Thomson <andersthomson888@×××××.com>] |
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Hi Ulrich, |
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As non-devs aren't allowed to post to gentoo-dev, I was hoping that you would |
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proxy this question/comment for me. |
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While on the subject of changing defaults, could we consider changing the |
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(default) location of the pkg db? Roughly everything in /usr (and /(s)bin) is |
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managed by the package manager, and it would be handy if the db of installed |
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bits is close to the bits themselves . Keeping it in /var/ makes /var |
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opinionated on the current set of installed packages and thus another thing to |
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backup etc of you want "just the os/system stuff, not the applications' |
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databases". along the same vein, if you want /var to be on another storage |
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device (NAS/SAN for large databases), you get the OS's pkg db with it. If for |
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any reason a boot fails to get /var mounted, you're without the pkg db. |
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Something along the lines of /usr/lib/pkg ? |
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Best, |
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/Anders |
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On Fri, Jul 27, 2018 at 4:31 PM, Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o> wrote: |
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>>>>> On Fri, 27 Jul 2018, Corentin “Nado” Pazdera wrote: |
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> July 27, 2018 4:07 PM, "William Hubbs" <williamh@g.o> wrote: |
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>> Section 5.5.2 describes the directory structure of /var/cache. |
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>> These paths are all optional [1]. |
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>> /var/cache/fonts |
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>> /var/cache/man |
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>> /var/cache/www |
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>> /var/cache/<package> |
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>> Gentoo isn't a package, so I don't think /var/cache/gentoo/* is |
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>> appropriate. Here is my proposal: |
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>> /usr/portage -> /var/db/repos/gentoo |
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>> /usr/portage/distfiles -> /var/cache/portage/distfiles |
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>> /usr/portage/packages -> /var/cache/portage/binpkgs |
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>> I'm not 100% comfortable with /var/db, but I don't have any better |
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>> suggestion either. |
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>> [1] http://refspecs.linuxfoundation.org/FHS_3.0/fhs-3.0.html#varcacheApplicationCacheData |
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> From the same source |
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> "No other requirements are made on the data format of the cache |
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> directories." |
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> And as you have quoted it, everything under /var/cache is optional. |
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> So anything which doesn't conflict with another package seems fine |
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> according to FHS. |
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That's how I would read it, too. We could of course invent a package |
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name (like "package-manager" for virtual/package-manager) but it seems |
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cumbersome, and I don't see any benefit of it. |
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There also is /var/cache/fonts, so the FHS itself lists an example of |
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a directory that's not named after a specific package. |
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Ulrich |
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