Re: Usage of /var/lib for databases not properly described in policy

2010-08-14 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Christoph Anton Mitterer | What about using /srv/ for such stuff? Wouldn't that fit better? The structure of /srv is explicitly undefined and left up to the local admin, so I suggest not doing that. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are --

Re: Usage of /var/lib for databases not properly described in policy

2010-08-11 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
On Tue, 2010-08-10 at 22:29 +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: I just tried to give some advise about proper placement of database files in a Debian package and I was sure I could simply link to the relevant paragraph in policy but there is none. Is the usage of /var/lib/pkgname just a reasonable

Re: Usage of /var/lib for databases not properly described in policy

2010-08-11 Thread Andreas Tille
On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 09:15:49PM +0200, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: /var/my_super_duper_database and keep the data there? I do not actually intend to do so, but shouldn't this be fixed somewhere in the policy. FHS[1] is not giving any explicite advise here and so we can

Usage of /var/lib for databases not properly described in policy

2010-08-10 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, I just tried to give some advise about proper placement of database files in a Debian package and I was sure I could simply link to the relevant paragraph in policy but there is none. Is the usage of /var/lib/pkgname just a reasonable habit which is shared by postgresql, mysql and probably

Re: Usage of /var/lib for databases not properly described in policy

2010-08-10 Thread Don Armstrong
On Tue, 10 Aug 2010, Andreas Tille wrote: I just tried to give some advise about proper placement of database files in a Debian package and I was sure I could simply link to the relevant paragraph in policy but there is none. Is the usage of /var/lib/pkgname just a reasonable habit which is

Re: Usage of /var/lib for databases not properly described in policy

2010-08-10 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 10:29:39PM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: I just tried to give some advise about proper placement of database files in a Debian package and I was sure I could simply link to the relevant paragraph in policy but there is none. Is the usage of /var/lib/pkgname just a