Re: Debian, FHS & /floppy

[Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>]

On Wed, 16 Jan 2002 23:34:01 -0500 Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> wrote:
> Paul E Condon wrote:
> > As an example: before I read the FHS, I set up a local mirror of the
> > Debian packages using apt-move. I decided to create a root level
> > directory /mirror and to put in it a directory /mirror/debian, but when
> > I read FHS, I started wondering if I might be creating problems for
> > myself, because I had stuck a new non-standard item in the root
> > directory. Where should "real work" stuff go within the FHS? I wonder...
> 
> Wherever you want, really. The FHS is not a standard system
> administrators have to go out of their way to conform to, it's a
> standard to make life easier for system administrators.
> 
> Sysadmins don't have to follow debian policy either. Of course if you
> fly too much in the face of the FHS or debian policy (like trying to
> move all of your binaries into oh, /Program Files/), you're going to be
> in for a world of hurt. :-)

Wouldn't this usually go in /var?  Say, /var/mirrors?


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