July 27, 2018 4:07 PM, "William Hubbs" <willi...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 27, 2018 at 10:32:17AM +0200, Ulrich Mueller wrote:
>
>> So, considering all the feedback from mailing list and IRC:
>>
>> /usr/portage -> /var/db/repos/gentoo
>> /usr/portage/distfiles -> /var/cache{,/gentoo}/distfiles
>> /usr/portage/packages -> /var/cache{,/gentoo}/binpkgs
>>
>> Open question: Should we have the additional "gentoo" path component
>> for the ones in /var/cache? The tradeoff is between a path that is
>> easier to type, or slightly easier usage if someone wants to NFS mount
>> distfiles and binpkgs.
>
> Section 5.5.2 describes the directory structure of /var/cache. These
> paths are all optional [1].
>
> /var/cache/fonts
> /var/cache/man
> /var/cache/www
> /var/cache/<package>
>
> Gentoo isn't a package, so I don't think /var/cache/gentoo/* is
> appropriate. Here is my proposal:
>
> /usr/portage -> /var/db/repos/gentoo
> /usr/portage/distfiles -> /var/cache/portage/distfiles
> /usr/portage/packages -> /var/cache/portage/binpkgs
>
> I'm not 100% comfortable with /var/db, but I don't have any better
> suggestion either.
>
> William
>
> [1]
> http://refspecs.linuxfoundation.org/FHS_3.0/fhs-3.0.html#varcacheApplicationCacheData
From the same source
"No other requirements are made on the data format of the cache directories."
And as you have quoted it, everything under /var/cache is optional.
So anything which doesn't conflict with another package seems fine according to
FHS.
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Corentin “Nado” Pazdera
