From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NW6fO-0004yj-8g for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 16 Jan 2010 11:18:09 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A7C54E06B3; Sat, 16 Jan 2010 11:17:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: from amun.cheops.ods.org (amun.cheops.ods.org [82.95.138.191]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 67CB8E06B3 for ; Sat, 16 Jan 2010 11:17:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: from tefnut.cheops.ods.org ([2001:888:1022:0:211:24ff:fe37:e46e] helo=gentoo.org) by amun.cheops.ods.org with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1NW6f2-0005pR-KN for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Sat, 16 Jan 2010 12:17:45 +0100 Date: Sat, 16 Jan 2010 12:17:39 +0100 From: Fabian Groffen To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [rfc] layman storage location (again) Message-ID: <20100116111738.GC9258@gentoo.org> Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org References: <4B50C3B4.5050604@gentoo.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4B50C3B4.5050604@gentoo.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (Darwin 8.11.0, VIM - Vi IMproved 7.2) Organization: Gentoo Foundation, Inc. X-Content-Scanned: by amun.cheops.ods.org (Exim Exiscan) using SpamAssassin and ClamAV X-Archives-Salt: ac5684f4-68d4-45f7-a543-db11def60a95 X-Archives-Hash: a1133fe11245bc83b4ee0d77d87e0a8e On 15-01-2010 20:36:20 +0100, Sebastian Pipping wrote: > I would like to get it right with the next switch. > Would > > /var/lib/layman > > do well? /var/cache/layman seems inadequate as it might not be > regenerated [2] without losses (as upstream moves along). > > Would be great to hear a few opinions. Thanks! How about storing it in DISTDIR (like metadata.xml)? Or storing it somewhere in the rsync image? That would maybe make sense when Portage takes over layman's functionality in the future. -- Fabian Groffen Gentoo on a different level