On Wed, Jan 12, 2022 at 03:06:17PM -0700, Chris Murphy wrote: > > Unfortunately, real world RPMs that install into /opt also have e.g. log > > files in /opt/somesoftware/log, not /var/log/somesoftware. So it can't be > > underneath the read-only /usr mount. This is why rpm-ostree just straight > > up rejects RPMs that install into /opt. > > https://github.com/coreos/rpm-ostree/issues/233 > > The FHS says /opt is for static files. I think logs going in /opt is > asking for trouble if you really care about your logs. I'm not super > attached to enforcing /var/opt/<provider>/log versus dumping it in > /var/log. I think I prefer the latter because it's consistent with > /etc/opt/<provider>/ and is thus consistent. If you opt-in to /opt > then you don't get to opt-out of all the opt's. (not the best pun)
Let's please not recommend yet-another place to dump text logs. Services should log to the journal. This allows users to view the logs without hassle and provides log rotation and control over the total size of the logs. This is especially important for non-distro packages that install to /opt: they are particularly likely not to implement log rotation correctly if they try on their own. Zbyszek _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
