Re: [gentoo-dev] gen_usr_ldscript & --libdir=/lib

2012-12-24 Thread Diego Elio Pettenò
On 24/12/2012 20:08, Mike Frysinger wrote: > i.e. saying "we should get rid of gen_usr_ldscript and use --libdir=/lib" > makes absolutely no sense. it's just begging for people to screw things up > constantly and waste developer time for 0 gain. Amen. -- Diego Elio Pettenò — Flameeyes flamee.

[gentoo-dev] gen_usr_ldscript & --libdir=/lib

2012-12-24 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Friday 14 December 2012 05:43:41 Fabian Groffen wrote: > gen_usr_ldscript() vs --libdir=/lib. Questions on why, and if it makes > sense to remove gen_usr_ldscript in favour of --libdir. WilliamH will > open a discussion on gentoo-dev ML. these are orthogonal issues. not every package using g

Re: [gentoo-dev] Is /var/cache the right place for repositories?

2012-12-24 Thread Diego Elio Pettenò
On 24/12/2012 16:43, Ulrich Mueller wrote: > Why not? Because they are distributed to other systems? More because they can be used as a backup themselves, if I want to keep older versions available. > /var/lib then? Fine by me. > (Though FHS acolytes would probably put them in /srv ...) Let's

Re: [gentoo-dev] Is /var/cache the right place for repositories?

2012-12-24 Thread Rick "Zero_Chaos" Farina
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/24/2012 09:00 AM, Diego Elio Pettenò wrote: > On 24/12/2012 14:32, Ulrich Mueller wrote: >> This doesn't look right to me. /var/spool contains things like printer >> queues or outgoing mail that are typically deleted after processing. > > Not su

Re: [gentoo-dev] Is /var/cache the right place for repositories?

2012-12-24 Thread Rick "Zero_Chaos" Farina
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/24/2012 04:08 AM, Ulrich Mueller wrote: >> On Mon, 24 Dec 2012, Sebastian Pipping wrote: > >> On 20.12.2012 19:14, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: >>> The tree is a database. It belongs in /var/db/. > >> I don't see /var/db in the latest release of

Re: [gentoo-dev] Is /var/cache the right place for repositories?

2012-12-24 Thread Ulrich Mueller
> On Mon, 24 Dec 2012, Diego Elio Pettenò wrote: > On 24/12/2012 14:32, Ulrich Mueller wrote: >> This doesn't look right to me. /var/spool contains things like >> printer queues or outgoing mail that are typically deleted after >> processing. > Not sure how /var/cache fits for binpkgs though,

Re: [gentoo-dev] Is /var/cache the right place for repositories?

2012-12-24 Thread viv...@gmail.com
Il 24/12/2012 10:11, Ciaran McCreesh ha scritto: On Mon, 24 Dec 2012 03:17:06 +0100 Sebastian Pipping wrote: On 20.12.2012 19:14, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: The tree is a database. It belongs in /var/db/. yes and no, yes it contain data and executable needed to update gentoo system, in a hierarc

Re: [gentoo-dev] Is /var/cache the right place for repositories?

2012-12-24 Thread Michael Mol
On Mon, Dec 24, 2012 at 8:32 AM, Ulrich Mueller wrote: >> On Mon, 24 Dec 2012, Diego Elio Pettenň wrote: > >>> /var/cache/packages/ PKGDIR > >> Maybe /var/spool/binpkgs ? > > This doesn't look right to me. /var/spool contains things like printer > queues or outgoing mail that are typically del

Re: [gentoo-dev] Is /var/cache the right place for repositories?

2012-12-24 Thread Diego Elio Pettenò
On 24/12/2012 14:32, Ulrich Mueller wrote: > This doesn't look right to me. /var/spool contains things like printer > queues or outgoing mail that are typically deleted after processing. Not sure how /var/cache fits for binpkgs though, tbh. -- Diego Elio Pettenò — Flameeyes flamee...@flameeyes.e

Re: [gentoo-dev] Is /var/cache the right place for repositories?

2012-12-24 Thread Ulrich Mueller
> On Mon, 24 Dec 2012, Diego Elio Pettenò wrote: >> /var/cache/packages/ PKGDIR > Maybe /var/spool/binpkgs ? This doesn't look right to me. /var/spool contains things like printer queues or outgoing mail that are typically deleted after processing. Ulrich

Re: [gentoo-dev] Is /var/cache the right place for repositories?

2012-12-24 Thread Michał Górny
On Mon, 24 Dec 2012 10:08:13 +0100 Ulrich Mueller wrote: > > On Mon, 24 Dec 2012, Sebastian Pipping wrote: > > > On 20.12.2012 19:14, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > >> The tree is a database. It belongs in /var/db/. > > > I don't see /var/db in the latest release of the Filesystem > > Hierarchy S

Re: [gentoo-dev] Is /var/cache the right place for repositories?

2012-12-24 Thread Michael Mol
On Mon, Dec 24, 2012 at 4:08 AM, Ulrich Mueller wrote: >> On Mon, 24 Dec 2012, Sebastian Pipping wrote: > >> On 20.12.2012 19:14, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: >>> The tree is a database. It belongs in /var/db/. > >> I don't see /var/db in the latest release of the Filesystem >> Hierarchy Standard: >

Re: [gentoo-dev] Is /var/cache the right place for repositories?

2012-12-24 Thread Diego Elio Pettenò
On 24/12/2012 10:08, Ulrich Mueller wrote: >/var/cache/packages/ PKGDIR Maybe /var/spool/binpkgs ? -- Diego Elio Pettenò — Flameeyes flamee...@flameeyes.eu — http://blog.flameeyes.eu/

Re: [gentoo-dev] Is /var/cache the right place for repositories?

2012-12-24 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Mon, 24 Dec 2012 03:17:06 +0100 Sebastian Pipping wrote: > On 20.12.2012 19:14, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > > The tree is a database. It belongs in /var/db/. > > I don't see /var/db in the latest release of the Filesystem Hierarchy > Standard: > > http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#T

Re: [gentoo-dev] Is /var/cache the right place for repositories?

2012-12-24 Thread Ulrich Mueller
> On Mon, 24 Dec 2012, Sebastian Pipping wrote: > On 20.12.2012 19:14, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: >> The tree is a database. It belongs in /var/db/. > I don't see /var/db in the latest release of the Filesystem > Hierarchy Standard: > http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#THEVARHIERARCH