On Mon, 2011-01-03 at 15:31 -0500, Anthony DeRobertis wrote:
> Package: zoneminder
>
> FYI, dpkg should not change symlinks to directories or vice versa.
> Policy 6.6(4) documents this. In my experience, this works as
> documented, but dpkg does have bugs of course.
>
dpkg has nothing directly to do with the creation
of /usr/share/zoneminder/{events, images}. They're created by the
install scripts in the upstream packages.
> Also, I've never used zoneminder, so I don't know what the dirs are for,
> but from this bug report it sounds like events & images contain
> important data. But you've symlinked them to /var/cache in the package,
> which is certainly not a good place to store important data!
>
I'm going to raise a separate bug for moving from /var/cache to somewere
else.
> /var/cache must only be used for things your program can regenerate. To
> quote the FHS, "The application must be able to regenerate or restore
> the data. Unlike /var/spool, the cached files can be deleted without
> data loss."
>
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: squeeze/sid
> APT prefers testing
> APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (200, 'unstable'), (100, 'experimental')
> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
>
> Kernel: Linux 2.6.36-trunk-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
> Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
>
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Peter Howard <p...@northern-ridge.com.au>
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