On 01/28/2010 11:49 AM, Christian Krause wrote: > Hello, > > During a review the following question came up: > > Would it be OK if a package creates > /var/db/<pkgname> > for various kind of reasons (in this case a daemon would serve audio > files the user puts there)? Generally speaking: No. > In Fedora only the nscd uses this directory: > /var/db/Makefile > /var/db/nscd/* Well, a fact which I consider similarly arguable as your case ;) I am not sufficiently familiar with nscd, but I guess it using /var/db is a historic artifact, similar to /var/named, /var/ftp, /var/yp etc. > The FHS doesn't contain any specific guidelines about the usage of > /var/db/ and a quick web search revealed that on a couple of systems > some daemons use /var/db like this > /var/db/mysql > /var/db/openldap > etc. To my knowledge this doesn't apply to fedora, because we generally advise people to use /var/lib/<package> > 1. Would it be acceptable in Fedora as well that a package creates > /var/db/<pkgname> ? I would vote against it and would recommend /var/lib/<package> or a subdirectory thereof. This way a package can "play whatever games", inside of this directory, if it needs to. > 2. Would it make sense in this specific case, where a streaming server > would serve the audio files from this directory (per default)? What kind of files are inside of this "db" directory? Are they * an arbitrary directory hierarchy of plain "content" files? * a prestructured directory hierarchy (prestructured to meet the demands of your application) of plain "content" files? * real "database" files (e.g. indicies on something else)? Depending on the answers to these questions, there would be several alternatives, rsp. further questions to be discussed. > Personally I think that a collection of audio files should not be > considered a database and so it shouldn't be there. c.f. my last comment. > Since usually the > user has his audio collection in his home directory, Not in real deamon driven scenario. There he would have his audio collection in an arbitrary directory, (could be a decicated user's home, could be some directory below /srv, could be elsewhere). > I would just > configure the daemon that way, that the user has to specifically > configure the directory where the files reside the server should stream... Agreed, that's how I would do it. Ralf -- packaging mailing list packaging@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/packaging
