On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 02:33:16PM -0600, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > I am looking at adding a subpackage to colossus for a public facing game > server that maintains some state in files. It isn't clear to me where this > should go (other than being under /var). Packages don't seem to be consistent > about this as far as I can see. > > Some possibilities might be: > /var/colossus > /var/lib/colossus > /var/games/colossus > /var/lib/games/colossus > Hans can correct me here but I believe that the prefered location is /var/games/colossus. The reference for that is here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/Games/Packaging Those aren't official packaging guidelines but they are rules that the games SIG has worked out as best practices for things they've packaged. > On a related note, is it Ok to keep a config file in /var so there are > less places to go looking for information related to the server, or should > that be kept in /etc? > The config really should be in /etc. There are a few legacy packages that have config in /var but we probably want to fix those eventually rather than have more. > -- > packaging mailing list > packaging@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/packaging
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