Re: [arch-general] Location of the pacman database

2014-09-10 Thread Neven Sajko
> > Just watched : there is already this bug report : > https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/41863 But that task is not only about the filesystem location of the Pacman DB. It could be useful to open a separate bugreport just for that one issue. On 10 September 2014 21:37, Yamakaky wrote: > Anyway,

Re: [arch-general] Location of the pacman database

2014-09-10 Thread Yamakaky
Anyway, I think you should open a feature request at the bugtracker. Just watched : there is already this bug report : https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/41863

Re: [arch-general] Location of the pacman database

2014-09-10 Thread Yamakaky
I htink you are right about the local DB (/var/lib/pacman/local). However, /var/lib/pacman/sync should probably stay in /var (I don't need a rw root FS to resync package DB). Yes, of course. I was talking about the local/ database.

Re: [arch-general] Location of the pacman database

2014-09-10 Thread Leonid Isaev
On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 09:05:03PM +0200, Yamakaky wrote: > Le 10/09/2014 20:50, Joel Teichroeb a écrit : > >Generally, things that are written to are not stored in /usr. > > > >This page might help > > > >https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/arch_filesystem_hierarchy > > > > That's what I thought

Re: [arch-general] Location of the pacman database

2014-09-10 Thread Yamakaky
Le 10/09/2014 20:50, Joel Teichroeb a écrit : Generally, things that are written to are not stored in /usr. This page might help https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/arch_filesystem_hierarchy That's what I thought at first, but it's different. pacman db doesn't contain runtime stuff, it's a

Re: [arch-general] Location of the pacman database

2014-09-10 Thread Joel Teichroeb
Generally, things that are written to are not stored in /usr. This page might help https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/arch_filesystem_hierarchy

[arch-general] Location of the pacman database

2014-09-10 Thread Yamakaky
Hi ! Why is the pacman local database location defaulted to /var/lib/pacman ? It should go in /usr as it reflects the installed packages and it is only updated when a package is updated. If it where in /usr, it would be easier to share the /usr partition between hosts. What do you think ?

Re: [arch-general] java: cannot execute - too many levels of symbolic links

2014-09-10 Thread lolilolicon
On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 6:25 PM, Guillaume ALAUX wrote: > On 9 September 2014 12:25, lolilolicon wrote: >> To be sure, I do appreciate your effort, Guillaume. No one likes to deal >> with this java crap. I don't have strong objections against your general >> approach, only this particular packagi

Re: [arch-general] java: cannot execute - too many levels of symbolic links

2014-09-10 Thread Guillaume ALAUX
On 9 September 2014 12:25, lolilolicon wrote: > On Tue, Sep 9, 2014 at 4:27 PM, Guillaume ALAUX > wrote: >> >> Hello, >> >> Guillaume here (packager of that "piece of crap" java-common). > > Yes it is pretty crappy. > >>> symlinks created by the jre* packages at install time, without any >>> pac