On Wednesday, September 26, 2007 6:19:20 pm John Dennis wrote: > Richi Plana wrote: > > If there's any interest, I could make spec files (based off of the > > latest SRPM) for one of these packages to move the data directory > > from /var to /srv. Just let me know which packages you find interesting > > and I'll submit the spec file to the package maintainer (or here if > > Fedora doesn't want to move it). > > Hold on there partner :-) In the case of mailman (and many other > packages) you can't just move things around without updating the selinux > policy in lock step. Then there's the issue of breaking all the scripts > out in the field which think they know where files are located, you're > going to ruffle a lot of feathers if you move things without a big prior > announcement Nah, just do what they did in openSUSE when the decision was made to move the Gnome stuff from the /opt folder to the /usr folder - have "compat" packages that create symlinks to the old locations, so that if the user has scripts that assume the stuff's still located in /var, they will still work properly. I'm not entirely sure how well this would work with SELinux, though. -- Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
