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Date:      Sat, 06 Aug 2005 02:58:52 -0700
From:      Colin Percival <cperciva@freebsd.org>
To:        "Simon L. Nielsen" <simon@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        "freebsd-arch@freebsd.org" <freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: /usr/portsnap vs. /var/db/portsnap
Message-ID:  <42F489DC.1080400@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <20050806092232.GA850@zaphod.nitro.dk>
References:  <42F47C0D.2020704@freebsd.org> <20050806092232.GA850@zaphod.nitro.dk>

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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



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