On Thu, Oct 08, 1998 at 12:47:09PM -0400, Stephen J. Carpenter wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 08, 1998 at 11:48:08AM -0400, Peter S Galbraith wrote:
> >
> > "Thomas Gebhardt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> > > the configuration files of all debian packages are located in /etc.
> > > That's really fine.
Hi,
> My general rule of thinking about it is:
> state is an opion within the program which can be changed and
> should be remembered next time.
> esp something which reasonably could change every time the program
> is used (it is concievable I have a CD today...in a month I am FTP
> upgrading)
>
On Thu, Oct 08, 1998 at 11:48:08AM -0400, Peter S Galbraith wrote:
>
> "Thomas Gebhardt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > the configuration files of all debian packages are located in /etc.
> > That's really fine.
> >
> > But the package manager stores its configuration (access method,
> > list
Thomas Gebhardt wrote:
> And "debian_version" should go to /var.
debian_version is static. It should not go to /var.
The fact that it "changes" every time you upgrade the entire system does
not make it to be less "static". Otherwise we would have to move /usr to
/var as well, since it does also c
Hi,
> > But the package manager stores its configuration (access method,
> > list of selected packages, ...) somewhere in /var/lib/dpkg. Why?
>
> Configuration goes in /etc, state goes in /var.
Ok.
So the information about the configured access method and the list
of selected packages should be
"Thomas Gebhardt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> the configuration files of all debian packages are located in /etc.
> That's really fine.
>
> But the package manager stores its configuration (access method,
> list of selected packages, ...) somewhere in /var/lib/dpkg. Why?
Steve Dunham wrote:
"Thomas Gebhardt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi,
>
> the configuration files of all debian packages are located in /etc.
> That's really fine.
> But the package manager stores its configuration (access method,
> list of selected packages, ...) somewhere in /var/lib/dpkg. Why?
Configuration g
Hi,
the configuration files of all debian packages are located in /etc.
That's really fine.
But the package manager stores its configuration (access method,
list of selected packages, ...) somewhere in /var/lib/dpkg. Why?
If these items would be stored in /etc, one could rebuild the
system from
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