Date: Sat, 06 Aug 2005 01:59:57 -0700 From: Colin Percival <cperciva@freebsd.org> To: "freebsd-arch@freebsd.org" <freebsd-arch@freebsd.org> Subject: /usr/portsnap vs. /var/db/portsnap Message-ID: <42F47C0D.2020704@freebsd.org>
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I'm going to be bringing portsnap into the base system very soon, and I have a slight problem: I don't know where I should put the default working directory. Portsnap keeps a compressed snapshot of the ports tree, requiring roughly 50MB and 13000 inodes. The "natural" place for this to go would be in /var/db/, but I suspect that this would cause problems for many users, particularly when it comes to the number of inodes. 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. Colin Percival
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