On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 3:25 AM, Tomeu Vizoso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Why not use /var/lock like everybody else? We can add appropriate users >>> to the lock group if needed. (Or however Fedora does these things.) Are >>> we better off making ~/.sugar/default contain our complete parallel >>> FHS? >> >> I suggested /var/lock too, but I'm following Tomeu's hints here >> http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/devel/2008-May/014440.html > > Better listen to Michael rather than me about systems programming ;)
After a bit of review of this -- with the intetion to move the lock that ds-backup uses from a newfangled .sugar/default/lock to /var/lock -- I don't think it's a good idea. Reasons: - /var/lock is for root only. We can add /var/lock/sugar but this will only work for single-user systems - we are moving towards more portability, this includes linuxen where multiple users (even if not concurrent - ie ubuntu on my laptop). So who can write to /var/lock/sugar and how do we keep separate dirs for each user becomes a maintenance problem. - It adds complexity to ds-backup (at least create and chown dir to a _hardcoded user acct_ in post-inst of the rpm) while adding nothing for end users. cheers, m -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- School Server Architect - ask interesting questions - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
