On 01/28/2010 12:32 PM, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > On 01/28/2010 11:49 AM, Christian Krause wrote: >> 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. Ok, I fully agree that for other packages, which store their own variable data, this would be the best solution. >> 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? Yes, basically these will be the collection of audio/mp3 files the user wants to be served. > * 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)? No. >> 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). Yeah, agreed. We cannot predict which directory the user will use at all. >> 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. Ok, we'll go this way. Thanks for the clarification. Best regards, Christian -- packaging mailing list packaging@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/packaging
