Re: [Rpm-maint] RFC: SUSE/openSUSE's proposed relocation of /var/lib/rpm

with those potential users of /usr/lib/sysimage? -- Richard Brown Linux Distribution Engineer - Future Technology Team Chairman - openSUSE Phone +4991174053-361 SUSE Linux GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, D-90409 Nuernberg GF: Felix Imendörffer, Jane Smithard, Graham Nort

Re: [Rpm-maint] RFC: SUSE/openSUSE's proposed relocation of /var/lib/rpm

On Thu, 2017-10-26 at 11:54 +0300, Panu Matilainen wrote: > On 10/26/2017 11:35 AM, Richard Brown wrote: > > On Wed, 2017-10-18 at 08:51 -0400, Colin Walters wrote: > > > > > > On Wed, Oct 18, 2017, at 06:56 AM, Panu Matilainen wrote: > > > > >

Re: [Rpm-maint] RFC: SUSE/openSUSE's proposed relocation of /var/lib/rpm

> > I'm OK with /usr/lib/sysimage. Would we want to store the rpmdb directly to /usr/lib/sysimage or have it in it's own subdir, eg /usr/lib/sysimage/rpm My feeling would be to prefer the latter Regards, -- Richard Brown Linux Distribution Engineer - Future Technology Team Chairman - op

Re: [Rpm-maint] RFC: SUSE/openSUSE's proposed relocation of /var/lib/rpm

eds to be backed up/restored according to the needs of the specific services that use it. I love the idea of having var-less system backups again and rpm is the only tool I can think of on the distributions I'm familiar with that is impeding this. -- Richard Brown Linux Distribution Engineer - Futu

[Rpm-maint] [rpm-software-management/rpm] Change dbpath from /var/lib/rpm to /usr/lib/rpmdb (#331)

As discussed in http://lists.rpm.org/pipermail/rpm-maint/2017-October/006681.html As there has been no objections yet to the suggestion this might be a suitable new default, here's the change making it the default. You can view, comment on, or merge this pull request online at:

Re: [Rpm-maint] RFC: SUSE/openSUSE's proposed relocation of /var/lib/rpm

> On 10. Oct 2017, at 22:32, Colin Walters wrote: > >> We're planning on making this change for all of our distributions via >> all of their distribution methods, for consistencies sake. >> Given how we build our containers, we'd actually have to do extra work >> to

Re: [Rpm-maint] RFC: SUSE/openSUSE's proposed relocation of /var/lib/rpm

h and restore the old location once my submit-request is accepted in OBS :) -- Richard Brown Linux Distribution Engineer - Future Technology Team Chairman - openSUSE Phone +4991174053-361 SUSE Linux GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, D-90409 Nuernberg GF: Felix Imendörffer, Jane Smithard, Dilip Upmanyu

[Rpm-maint] RFC: SUSE/openSUSE's proposed relocation of /var/lib/rpm

do you all think? And if a change like this is on the cards as an rpm default, where would the likely location be? Thanks in advance, -- Richard Brown Linux Distribution Engineer - Future Technology Team Chairman - openSUSE Phone +4991174053-361 SUSE Linux GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, D-90409 Nuernberg GF: Felix Ime