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

More followup, just a FYI. Note that in this PR the whole of /usr/lib/sysimage is just usr_t: https://github.com/fedora-selinux/selinux-policy-contrib/pull/43 ___ Rpm-maint mailing list Rpm-maint@lists.rpm.org

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

FYI: https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/filesystem/pull-request/3 and https://github.com/projectatomic/rpm-ostree/pull/1142 ___ Rpm-maint mailing list Rpm-maint@lists.rpm.org http://lists.rpm.org/mailman/listinfo/rpm-maint

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

On Wed, Nov 29, 2017 at 9:20 AM, Colin Walters wrote: > [/me moves to center of thread, pulls out defibrillation machine, *zzzt* > *zzzt*] > > On Thu, Oct 26, 2017, at 04:59 AM, Richard Brown wrote: >> >> As we're pressed on time, openSUSE will be going right ahead and moving

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

[/me moves to center of thread, pulls out defibrillation machine, *zzzt* *zzzt*] On Thu, Oct 26, 2017, at 04:59 AM, Richard Brown wrote: > > As we're pressed on time, openSUSE will be going right ahead and moving it's > rpmdb to /usr/lib/sysimage/rpm as > fast as possible I assume this was

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

On Wed, 2017-10-18 at 08:51 -0400, Colin Walters wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 18, 2017, at 06:56 AM, Panu Matilainen wrote: > > > I don't see /usr/lib as a *good* place for this, but if a new top level > > directory in /usr seems too much then maybe /usr/lib/sysimage or such > > I'm OK with

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: > > > > > > > I don't see /usr/lib as a *good* place for

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

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: I don't see /usr/lib as a *good* place for this, but if a new top level directory in /usr seems too much then maybe /usr/lib/sysimage

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

On Wed, 2017-10-18 at 08:51 -0400, Colin Walters wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 18, 2017, at 06:56 AM, Panu Matilainen wrote: > > > I don't see /usr/lib as a *good* place for this, but if a new top level > > directory in /usr seems too much then maybe /usr/lib/sysimage or such > > I'm OK with

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

On Wed, Oct 18, 2017, at 06:56 AM, Panu Matilainen wrote: > I don't see /usr/lib as a *good* place for this, but if a new top level > directory in /usr seems too much then maybe /usr/lib/sysimage or such I'm OK with /usr/lib/sysimage. > As Neal pointed out, there's dpkg and the other

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

On 10/16/2017 06:22 PM, Richard Brown wrote: On Fri, 2017-10-13 at 11:31 +0300, Panu Matilainen wrote: The database path has always been trivially configurable with a macro without having to patch rpm, nobody is taking that away. And because it's so trivial to change it really doesn't need a

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

On Mon, Oct 16, 2017 at 11:22 AM, Richard Brown wrote: > On Fri, 2017-10-13 at 11:31 +0300, Panu Matilainen wrote: > >> The database path has always been trivially configurable with a macro >> without having to patch rpm, nobody is taking that away. And because >> it's so trivial

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

On Fri, 2017-10-13 at 11:31 +0300, Panu Matilainen wrote: > The database path has always been trivially configurable with a macro > without having to patch rpm, nobody is taking that away. And because > it's so trivial to change it really doesn't need a configure switch either. > > It's also

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

On 10/12/2017 05:44 PM, Mark Hatle wrote: On 10/12/17 4:52 AM, Neal Gompa wrote: On Mon, Oct 9, 2017 at 11:25 AM, Richard Brown wrote: What do you all think? And if a change like this is on the cards as an rpm default, where would the likely location be? So, I think we

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

On 10/12/17 4:52 AM, Neal Gompa wrote: > On Mon, Oct 9, 2017 at 11:25 AM, Richard Brown wrote: >> >> What do you all think? And if a change like this is on the cards as an rpm >> default, where would the likely >> location be? >> > > So, I think we should probably expose this as

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

On 10/12/2017 04:04 PM, Colin Walters wrote: On Thu, Oct 12, 2017, at 07:18 AM, Panu Matilainen wrote: Rpm is not the only data of this kind, I can think of at least one other similar need (SWID) and almost certainly there are more. Why not give this data a place of its own? Something like

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

On Thu, Oct 12, 2017, at 07:18 AM, Panu Matilainen wrote: > > Rpm is not the only data of this kind, I can think of at least one other > similar need (SWID) and almost certainly there are more. Why not give > this data a place of its own? Something like > > /usr/sysimage Hm...creating a new

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

On 10/09/2017 06:25 PM, Richard Brown wrote: Hello rpm developers, openSUSE & SUSE distributions have a growing number of problems with the current location of the rpmdb in /var/lib/rpm All *SUSE Distributions have a default btrfs snapshot & rollback feature. We need the contents of the rpmdb

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

On Mon, Oct 9, 2017 at 11:25 AM, Richard Brown wrote: > > What do you all think? And if a change like this is on the cards as an rpm > default, where would the likely > location be? > So, I think we should probably expose this as an configure switch, and default to /var/lib/rpm.

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

On Tue, Oct 10, 2017, at 03:41 PM, Richard Brown wrote: > On 2017-10-10 20:05, Colin Walters wrote: > > > My opinion here boils down to: if rpm upstream is happy with > > /usr/lib/rpmdb, > > I'm happy to do the work of changing rpm-ostree to use that. > > That's great news, I'm happy to help if

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

On 2017-10-10 20:05, Colin Walters wrote: My opinion here boils down to: if rpm upstream is happy with /usr/lib/rpmdb, I'm happy to do the work of changing rpm-ostree to use that. That's great news, I'm happy to help if I can (Longer version: I don't find the "sharable

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

On Mon, Oct 9, 2017, at 11:25 AM, Richard Brown wrote: > The discussion currently boils down to either copying rpm-ostree and placing > our rpmdb in /usr/share/rpm, or > locating it in /usr/lib/rpmdb I definitely like the "db" suffix, makes it less of a potential naming clash if librpm

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

Hello rpm developers, openSUSE & SUSE distributions have a growing number of problems with the current location of the rpmdb in /var/lib/rpm All *SUSE Distributions have a default btrfs snapshot & rollback feature. We need the contents of the rpmdb contained within the snapshots. This means