On 1/4/11, Ben Walton <[email protected]> wrote: > Excerpts from Philip Brown's message of Mon Jan 03 19:11:26 -0500 2011: > >> Just to appropriately "cross link" email threads.... > > Ok, lets! > > I inadvertently found the original[1] conversation while looking for > other old threads tonight. The thread in February was a few messages > and then it got picked up again later on[2]. The only mention of the > /var/opt stuff was by James, early on. It was never actually > discussed beyond the initial mention. Therefore, it was not generally > agreed as policy at that time.[3]
what you wrote above, can be summarized as, "I found an old thread that mentioned /var/opt, but there was no agreement about it at that time". That is not the same thing as "there was never any agreement by people to disallow it". Both the summer camp writeup you have referenced on it, and the more general policy of "we suport shared /opt/csw ", encompass agreements that it should not be allowed. We have THREE board members, but we've only publically heard from one on this issue. I'd like to see our other two members write something about the above two agreements, relating to this issue. Particularly the claim of ambiguity about /var/opt/ in http://wiki.opencsw.org/shared-opt-csw-setup I would say it is completely clear, and you are misreading it. There's a difference between "ambiguity" and misreading. directory writable Allowable use /var/opt/csw Yes Allowable for run-time-only data. Do not deliver files in package here That seems completely non-ambiguous. The meaning of "run-time" is non-ambiguous. The meaning of "Do not deliver files in package here" is completely clear in terms of disallowing files in the prototype under /var/opt/csw. The only ambiguity is whether it allows indirect "delivery" via tactics such as postinstall or class action scripts. _______________________________________________ maintainers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.opencsw.org/mailman/listinfo/maintainers .:: This mailing list's archive is public. ::.
