Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2017 13:12:23 +0100 From: Christian Schwarz <me@cschwarz.com> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Preferred directory for server data (/var/db/pkgname?) Message-ID: <20170112121223.fupbtizrp3ne5ouz@csarch>
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What is the correct directory for storing the state of a server application?
That might be
- the data directory of a database server
(MySQL uses /var/db/mysql
Postgres uses /var/db/postgres)
- Configuration managed by the application, not the admin
(Quassel uses /var/db/quasselcore)
- net-im/prosody curiously uses /usr/local/var/lib/prosody
to store application-managed state data [1]
I am writing this because I stumbled over the net-im/prosody path,
which I think is not intuitive given the behavior of other ports.
But before I submit my patch for this, I would like to know if there is an
actual policy in place.
Taking a look at hier(7):
>/var/ multi-purpose log, temporary, transient, and spool files
>
> [...]
>
> db/ miscellaneous automatically generated
> system-specific database files
Doesn't seem like the above cases match this description.
Interestingly, the Arch Linux hier(7) has an entry for this kind of data:
> /var/lib/<package>
> State data for packages and subsystems (optional).
What do you think?
--
Christian Schwarz
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