On Fri, Nov 14, 1997 at 09:55:07AM -0200, Otavio Exel wrote: > I see all dselect stuff live in /var/lib/dpkg; I'd say /var is not a > safe place to keep such important stuff; any opinions?
Well then, where would you want it to be? The latest version of FHS (Filesystem Hierarchy Standard) tells us this sort of thing should be in /var/state/, more specifically in /var/state/dpkg (you can read the FHS at http://www.pathname.com/fhs/). /var is as important a hierarchy as any other, except for /tmp and /usr/src I would say, and a serious backup strategy cannot overlook this directory; think of /var/mail or /var/spool/mqueue as important as a home directory. olive -- Olivier Tharan, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Never make any mistaeks. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
