[csw-maintainers] [policy] files/dirs in /var/opt/csw

Philip Brown phil at bolthole.com
Sat Feb 5 17:51:26 CET 2011


FYI for the curious, or the pessimistic: I have just batched a new
version of pkg-get. And yes I adjusted it to move the file out of
/var.

(the update was to fix a compatibility problem with sunfreeware.com packages)


On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 10:39 AM, Philip Brown <phil at bolthole.com> wrote:
> On 1/18/11, Peter Bonivart <bonivart at opencsw.org> wrote:
>>
>> Maybe it implied no files in /var but it sure wasn't enforced, even
>> pkg-get from Phil himself delivers files to /var.
>>
>
> That's a good point, and something I had completely forgotten.
> "forgotten about", does not mean "its okay", though
>
> I havent made a new release in pkg-get for a long time. Certainly not
> since any discussions about delivering files under /var.
> On my next update to it, I intend to fix that issue. Thanks for
> bringing that problem to my attention.
>


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