On Tue, 2010-08-10 at 22:29 +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > I just tried to give some advise about proper placement of database > files in a Debian package and I was sure I could simply link to the > relevant paragraph in policy but there is none. Is the usage of > /var/lib/<pkgname> just a reasonable habit which is shared by > postgresql, mysql and probably others and I could for instance invent > a directory > > /var/my_super_duper_database > > and keep the data there? I do not actually intend to do so, but > shouldn't this be fixed somewhere in the policy. FHS[1] is not > giving any explicite advise here and so we can not relay on the > predefinition there and thus should rather make our own. What about using /srv/ for such stuff? Wouldn't that fit better?
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