On Wed, Jan 30, 2019 at 02:09:19AM +0100, Josh Triplett wrote:
> It's worth documenting things that some packages have gotten wrong
> when the reason why they're wrong isn't obvious and isn't currently
> documented anywhere.
this in mind...
On Mon, Jan 28, 2019 at 12:06:31PM +0100, Josh Triplett wrote:
> From 463182f3a365fff6610d4e94eca4860fe51994f6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
> Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2019 11:39:10 +0100
> Subject: [PATCH] Packages must not install files or directories into
> /var/cache
>
> ---
> policy/ch-files.rst | 9 +++++++++
> 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/policy/ch-files.rst b/policy/ch-files.rst
> index 48410be..1cdcb18 100644
> --- a/policy/ch-files.rst
> +++ b/policy/ch-files.rst
> @@ -722,6 +722,15 @@ The name of the files and directories installed by binary packages
> outside the system PATH must be encoded in UTF-8 and should be
> restricted to ASCII when it is possible to do so.
>
> +.. _s-cache:
> +
> +Cache
> +-----
> +
> +Packages must not install files or directories into ``/var/cache``. The
> +system administrator may delete any or all files from this directory at
> +any time, or may choose to put it on an ephemeral filesystem.
> +
> .. [#]
> If you are using GCC, ``-fPIC`` produces code with relocatable
> position independent code, which is required for most architectures
> --
> 2.20.1
seconded.
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tschüß,
Holger
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