Re: Move /usr/sup to /var/db/sup?

From: Garance A Drosihn (drosih_at_rpi.edu)
Date: 05/21/04

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    Date: Fri, 21 May 2004 17:38:56 -0400
To: "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@freebsd.org>, freebsd-arch@freebsd.org

    At 12:36 PM -0700 5/21/04, Crist J. Clark wrote:
    >Just a minor thing, but I would think[0] most people would
    >agree that /var/db/sup is a much more logical place for the
    >CVSup "base" directory than /usr/sup. Yes, it doesn't take
    >up much space on /usr, but for those who don't want to write
    >to /usr[1] too much or mount /usr read-only, it's an irritant.
    >
    >Of course, there is one big reason not to change it, because
    >it would be a change.

    I have all my own sup-files anyway, so I do not have any
    strong opinion on this. But there is one minor advantage
    that I have noticed in having the "base=" directory in the
    same partition as the "prefix=" directory. If the partition
    matching "prefix=" is not mounted, and if the "base=" file
    is on that partition, then any attempt to run the cvsup will
    immediately fail.

    However, if the "prefix=" partition is not mounted, and the
    "base=" directory *is* available (because it is on a different
    partition), then the cvsup will go right ahead and download
    everything into the wrong partition. Depending on how your
    machine is set up, this can be rather disastrous... (it was
    for me, at least!)

    I have no idea if that is why someone went with /usr/sup in
    the example supfiles, though. I do not object to making the
    change to use /var/db/sup, but then I don't use those example
    files so my vote wouldn't mean much anyway... :-) 

    -- 
Garance Alistair Drosehn            =   gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu
Senior Systems Programmer           or  gad@freebsd.org
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute    or  drosih@rpi.edu
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