On Tuesday, 19 March 2002, John Summerfield wrote:
> > Hello list.
> > I made a package of an anti-virus program but I can't decide where
> > to place its virus definitions database files. It doesn't have its own
> > directory structure, so I have to place all files manually.
> > The virus db files are 'shareable', so according to FHS they should be in
> > /usr/share/<name>. But they are checked and, if necessary, updated on
> > a daily basis, so this qualifies as 'frequently modified' and should go
> > into /var.
> > For now I placed them in /usr/share/<name>, but I'm still not sure.
> > Any insight is welcome.
> >
>
> According to something I saw recently, /usr/share is for material
> sharable between architectures.
>
> Putting that stuff anywhere in /usr will be a pain if you want to share
> /usr between systems. Put it in /var, if you want to share it do so
> with NFS.
So something like /var/lib/<name> would be more plausible? OK. Thanks.
That was, in fact, my first thought. But after reading the FHS 2.2 spec
I wasn't so sure anymore.
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Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski <rathann(at)rangers.eu.org>
