-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 06/17/2013 04:50 PM, Lennart Poettering wrote: > On Mon, 17.06.13 22:12, Tom Gundersen ([email protected]) wrote: > >>> The only case, where this scheme would fail, is if you backup and >>> restore a system to a different partitioning scheme. >> >> I agree with Lennart that we don't want this scheme, but rather something >> predictable. >> >> How about Colin's suggestion of putting hwdb.bin (and similar files that >> cannot always be in /var/cache) in /etc/cache? Or if anyone have the >> stomach for a huge fight, try to convince everyone of the usefulness of >> /cache? > > Well, this is about very few files only. AFAICS only systemd/udev, kmod, > ld.so need binary caches around this early during boot. It sounds a bit > like overkill to introduce an entirely new root level hierarchy for that. > > Note that beyond caches there are a number of non-text-files in /etc. For > example /etc/localtime, /etc/selinux/targeted/policy/policy.27, > /etc/pki/*.db, /etc/aliases.db, /etc/ld.so.cache, /etc/prelink.cache and so > on. I am not convinced that text file vs. binary file is the best check to > decide whether something belongs in /etc or not. > > Lennart > One of these days I plan on getting the policy file out of /etc and into /usr/lib/selinux, But any customizations by the admin or other packages would end up putting content into /etc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.13 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/
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