Subject: Re: /var/db/pkg [was Re: AFS/arla]
To: None <hubert.feyrer@rz.uni-regensburg.de>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 09/23/1998 12:39:19
On Sep 23, Hubert Feyrer wrote
> If someone wants my opinion, i'd 1. not split it (as you'd have to know
> where a depending pkg was installed, which we don't) and 2. not move it 
> into any of LOCALBASE, ... (as you'd have to figure out where LOCALBASE
> is after all - it's set to /usr/local on some of my systems).
> 

However, it should be moved out of /var, for reasons I've already exposed.
Also, something else that would be nice would have ave a way to tell
pkg_* to not install the shearable files: actually I have a sparc
that mounts (read only) /usr/share and /usr/pkg/share from an i386
server.

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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