From owner-freebsd-ports Tue Apr 3 15: 0:55 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from titanic.medinet.si (titanic.medinet.si [212.18.32.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D2A3A37B726; Tue, 3 Apr 2001 15:00:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from blaz@amis.net) Received: by titanic.medinet.si (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 544B626C14; Wed, 4 Apr 2001 00:00:52 +0200 (CEST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by titanic.medinet.si (Postfix) with ESMTP id 43A6011713; Wed, 4 Apr 2001 00:00:52 +0200 (CEST) Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2001 00:00:52 +0200 (CEST) From: Blaz Zupan To: Cc: Subject: Re: ports/26327: [MAINTAINER UPDATE] netsaint-plugins port update In-Reply-To: <200104032145.f33LjMQ45084@freefall.freebsd.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > Committed without the /var change. Could you explain the reason for moving > out of ${PREFIX}. I haven't been able to find anything stating if that is > okay to do. Most ports put their "moving" data into /var. For example, MySQL uses /var/db/mysql, postfix spools in /var/spool/postfix. We don't have a /usr/local/var directory and it's not mentioned anywhere in hier(7). Blaz Zupan, Medinet d.o.o, Linhartova 21, 2000 Maribor, Slovenia E-mail: blaz@amis.net, Tel: +386-2-320-6320, Fax: +386-2-320-6325 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message