On Sun, May 15, 2005 at 11:46:14PM +0200, Pierre Habouzit wrote:
> Le Dim 15 Mai 2005 20:21, Tore Anderson a écrit :
> > One of my packages, Munin, dynamically create or update a tree of
> > static HTML and PNG files every five minutes. These aren't precious
> > in any way, there's no data loss if you delete all of them - they'll
> > simply be recreated the next time the update process runs.
> >
> > The current policy draft does not seem to have any suggestion for
> > placement of this kind of files, it only says static files should go
> > in /usr/share but this doesn't suit my application as the files are
> > changed all the time. They need to go under /var somewhere, the best
> > location is probably /var/cache but I'll leave it up to you to decide
> > on that.
>
> this has to go in /var/cache since it's :
> * variable
> * not vital to the app (if you delete them the app still works)
>
> You only have to read the FHS, it's really clear on how to use :
>
> /var/{lib,cache,spool}/$package
>
> and for your case, there is really no hesitation to have.
Yup, added to policy v1.2
Cheers,
Neil
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