Subj : MBSE, Sysops and distros
To : Sean Dennis
From : RJ Clay
Date : Sun Aug 09 2015 12:56 pm
Hi Sean!
18 Jul 15 20:18, you wrote to mark lewis:
SD> 18 Jul 15 17:17, you wrote to Vince Coen:
ml>> i'm rather tossed up about whether to install to /home on a
ml>> separate drive/partition as i generally (try to) do or to install
ml>> to /opt and have that on another drive/partition...
SD> MBSE was designed to be installed in /opt.
I don't know about "designed" but it was certain implemented that way,
given the number of places where that was hardcoded. Which, btw, I consider
to be a bug in the build system (which admittedly I still need to write up as
such) as besides anything else, it makes it a pain to do (for intance) a
Debian package properly.
I have done some work (in a forked development version) for where at least
some of the changes for the install paths need to be but still need to
tranlate that to patches that can be used in the Debian package build.
SD> The author specifies that
SD> and it was explained to me that doesn't break the LFS that way either.
Well, that's perhaps not entirely true [1]:
"Variable data of the program packages in /opt must be installed in
/var/opt/'package-name"
Under '/opt/package-name' is supposed to be where the static files go,
which isn't how mbsebbs is currently set up...
SD> I have /opt installed on a separate 320GB hard drive for ease of
SD> backup and the ability to switch distros if need be without totally
SD> breaking my MBSE install.
I would think that for that be able to work correctly, may depend on the
versions of the needed library files...
RJ
[1]
http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Filesystem-Hierarchy/html/Linux-Filesystem-Hierar
chy.html
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