[systemd-devel] [PATCH] udev hwdb: Store binary database in libdir, not in /etc

Łukasz Stelmach l.stelmach at samsung.com
Fri Jun 14 05:03:42 PDT 2013


It was <2013-06-14 pią 13:30>, when Jan Janssen wrote:
> On 06/14/2013 01:08 PM, Tom Gundersen wrote:
>> That said, I don't think libdir is appropriate as this data is not
>> under the control of the package manager (as it is generated at
>> install-time rather than at build-time, it would for instance not be
>> suitable for sharing between hosts). I guess localstatedir would be
>> another alternative, but the problem there is that it is not
>> (necessarily) available during early boot when this db is needed.
> One could introduce a /cache where such files could be stored. Similar
> to how /run was introduced to fix a similar issue. The folder would
> be required to be available at boot time.

What's wrong with /var/cache?

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Łukasz Stelmach
Samsung R&D Institute Poland
Samsung Electronics


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