[Rpm-maint] RFC: SUSE/openSUSE's proposed relocation of /var/lib/rpm

Richard Brown rbrown at suse.de
Thu Oct 26 08:35:35 UTC 2017


On Wed, 2017-10-18 at 08:51 -0400, Colin Walters wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Oct 18, 2017, at 06:56 AM, Panu Matilainen wrote:
> 
> > I don't see /usr/lib as a *good* place for this, but if a new top level 
> > directory in /usr seems too much then maybe /usr/lib/sysimage or such 
> 
> I'm OK with /usr/lib/sysimage.

Would we want to store the rpmdb directly to /usr/lib/sysimage or have it in it's own subdir, eg
/usr/lib/sysimage/rpm

My feeling would be to prefer the latter

Regards,



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