From owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Aug 6 10:05:47 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.org Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E61C316A41F; Sat, 6 Aug 2005 10:05:47 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cperciva@freebsd.org) Received: from pd3mo2so.prod.shaw.ca (shawidc-mo1.cg.shawcable.net [24.71.223.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 89BB643D49; Sat, 6 Aug 2005 10:05:47 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cperciva@freebsd.org) Received: from pd5mr3so.prod.shaw.ca (pd5mr3so-qfe3.prod.shaw.ca [10.0.141.144]) by l-daemon (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with ESMTP id <0IKS00FDSP26I430@l-daemon>; Sat, 06 Aug 2005 03:58:54 -0600 (MDT) Received: from pn2ml2so.prod.shaw.ca ([10.0.121.146]) by pd5mr3so.prod.shaw.ca (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with ESMTP id <0IKS0032ZP266OB0@pd5mr3so.prod.shaw.ca>; Sat, 06 Aug 2005 03:58:54 -0600 (MDT) Received: from [192.168.0.60] (S0106006067227a4a.vc.shawcable.net [24.87.209.6]) by l-daemon (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.18 (built Jul 28 2003)) with ESMTP id <0IKS00D03P25DG@l-daemon>; Sat, 06 Aug 2005 03:58:54 -0600 (MDT) Date: Sat, 06 Aug 2005 02:58:52 -0700 From: Colin Percival In-reply-to: <20050806092232.GA850@zaphod.nitro.dk> To: "Simon L. Nielsen" Message-id: <42F489DC.1080400@freebsd.org> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Accept-Language: en-us, en References: <42F47C0D.2020704@freebsd.org> <20050806092232.GA850@zaphod.nitro.dk> User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (X11/20050724) Cc: "freebsd-arch@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: /usr/portsnap vs. /var/db/portsnap X-BeenThere: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion related to FreeBSD architecture List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 06 Aug 2005 10:05:48 -0000 Simon L. Nielsen wrote: > On 2005.08.06 01:59:57 -0700, Colin Percival wrote: >>Is this a reasonable excuse for violating hier(7) and putting the >>compressed snapshot into /usr/portsnap? For reference, the port keeps >>the snapshot in /usr/local/portsnap. > > Wouldn't it make sense to put in on /var, and if people do not have > enough space there, they can just symlink the portsnap directory to a > location that has enough space? Probably... I'm just worried about inexperienced FreeBSD users who would see an error message about /var being full and not know what to do about it. Colin Percival