Re: /var/lib, /var/mail

[Santiago Vila <sanvila@unex.es>]

On Tue, 27 Jul 1999, Joseph Carter wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 27, 1999 at 01:45:47PM +0200, Santiago Vila wrote:
> > If we agree on this, a possible plan would be:
> > 
> > potato:
> >   Packages reference /var/spool/mail internally.
> >   base-files creates a symlink /var/mail -> /var/spool/mail
> > 
> > potato+1: Packages reference /var/mail internally.
> >   * base-files creates /var/mail as a real directory and symlinks
> >   /var/spool/mail to /var/mail when it is installed by scratch by the
> >   boot-floppies script that creates the base system.
> >   * If upgrading from a previous version, do nothing.
> 
> I'd say actually that any package using /var/mail should depend on the
> approprate base-files and we could do this for potato even.

You would have to use Pre-Depends, because as soon as you
unpack a mail reader using /var/mail, /var/mail would be used, even
if base-files has not created the symlink yet.

I dislike the idea of packages pre-depending on a specific version of
base-files, this imposes a certain order in the upgrade.

I think there is no hurry and we should stick to /var/spool/mail for
potato.

Thanks.

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