Subject: Re: Installer packages and arbitrary files referenced by packages

From: Yves Arrouye <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 18 Jul 1996 15:45:30 +0200

>>From arrouye Thu Jul 18 15:34:29 1996
From: arrouye
To: [email-masked] (Emilio Lopes)
Subject: Re: Installer packages and arbitrary files referenced by packages
Date: Thu, 18 Jul 1996 15:34:29 +0200

} Subject: Re: Installer packages and arbitrary files referenced by packages
} >>>>> "IJ" == Ian Jackson <[email-masked]> wrote:
} 
} IJ> Would everyone be happy if I changed the guidelines to say that
} IJ> things like this (output from scripts that needs to be dumped
} IJ> somewhere, and files that packages, eg installer packages, need to
} IJ> read to install) should have a filename prompted for, and that the
} IJ> default should be ~root/<packagename><somethingorother> and
} IJ> preferably kept in some way from one installation to the next ?

Preferably not at the first level, rather in ~root/setup or something
else.

} IJ> Do we need a special file in /etc giving a default directory name
} IJ> for this ?

It could be nice: many people have ~root == /root on / with really little
space left (shared with /tmp, too), so it would be nice if it could be
possible to have something like /var/adm/setup instead (and in fact, I'd
like to have /var/adm/<something> be the default).

Yves.

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From: Michael Shields <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 19 Jul 1996 15:58:40 +0000

>like to have /var/adm/<something> be the default).

If we make it ~root/setup, then root can easily symlink it elsewhere.

I don't think /var/adm/setup would be a good choice -- isn't /var/adm just
a compatibility symlink to /var/log, and deprecated?

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