From owner-freebsd-commit Fri May 5 12:22:05 1995 Return-Path: commit-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id MAA07541 for commit-outgoing; Fri, 5 May 1995 12:22:05 -0700 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id MAA07508 for cvs-ports-outgoing; Fri, 5 May 1995 12:21:58 -0700 Received: from veda.is (root@veda.is [193.4.230.1]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id MAA07500 ; Fri, 5 May 1995 12:21:39 -0700 Received: (from adam@localhost) by veda.is (8.6.8/8.6.6) id TAA22862; Fri, 5 May 1995 19:22:47 GMT From: Adam David Message-Id: <199505051922.TAA22862@veda.is> Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/news/inn/pkg PLIST To: pst@shockwave.com (Paul Traina) Date: Fri, 5 May 1995 19:22:47 +0000 (GMT) Cc: ache@astral.msk.su, CVS-commiters@freefall.cdrom.com, cvs-ports@freefall.cdrom.com, torstenb@freefall.cdrom.com In-Reply-To: <199505051836.LAA01898@precipice.shockwave.com> from "Paul Traina" at May 5, 95 11:36:58 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 823 Sender: commit-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > What does renaming /var/spool/news to /var/news fix? Might there be sites that have a separate partition for /var/spool ? > Are we just doing it to follow our OWN convention? /var/news is the suggested default in the latest Cnews. > /var/news is stupid, we're doing it ourselves, we'll have to fix every piece > of news related software that looks for /var/spool/news and we're > just making porting and maintenance that much more of a pain. Before /var/spool it was /usr/spool. Previous versions of Cnews suggested using /var/spool/news but leave the programs compiled for /usr/spool/news, and fix it with a symbolic link. It does not really matter whether the news partition is mounted on /var or /var/spool because the other option could be covered by using a symbolic link. -- Adam David