Hi all, apt-spy and pciutils (and possibly others) contain methods to update a database integral to their operation.
- `apt-spy update` downloads the list of available Debian mirrors to /usr/share/apt-spy (see #277816). - `update-pciids` downloads a new /usr/share/misc/pci.ids I think these are both in violation with the FHS, which states (Chapter 4, emphasis mine, using caps instead of asterisks for readability): "/usr is shareable, READ-ONLY DATA. That means that /usr should be shareable between various FHS-compliant hosts and MUST NOT BE WRITTEN TO." The apt-apy maintainer thinks this is okay because (from the bug report): apt-spy does not "dynamically update". It updates *if and ONLY if* you ask it to. I do not see this as a violation of the spirit of the FHS. I'm more than happy to have discussion about this. If this holds, then why does `apt-get update` modify files in /var/lib/apt/lists, and why is /var/lib/dpkg/status not really /usr/lib/dpkg/status? Well, two wrongs don't make a right, nor does APT/dpkg's choice for /var make using /usr for changeable resource data wrong for everyone, but I still think that apt-spy's mirror list and the PCI IDs should be kept in /var, since they are variable data. Looking forward to comments! -- Please do not CC me when replying to lists; I read them! .''`. martin f. krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' : proud Debian developer, admin, and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing a system Invalid/expired PGP subkeys? Use subkeys.pgp.net as keyserver!
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