Re: PKG_DBDIR under LOCALBASE (Was: ... default PKG_DBDIR)

[Geert Hendrickx <ghen%telenet.be@localhost>]

On Wed, Dec 02, 2009 at 12:56:13AM +0100, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 01, 2009 at 10:12:13PM +0000, David Brownlee wrote:
> > Just to clarify - I was referring to meta-data in LOCALBASE/db rather
> > than LOCALBASE/libdata/${anything}
> 
> Actually, it should just be VARBASE = $PREFIX/var and the rest follows
> naturally.


Except that $PREFIX can normally be read-only (unless you're doing pkg
operations in which case you'll be writing to the pkg db as well), whereas
$VARBASE must be read-write always.


        Geert


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