[arch-dev-public] [signoff] syslog-ng-3.0.1-1

Eric Bélanger snowmaniscool at gmail.com
Sun Mar 8 19:50:37 EDT 2009


On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 6:02 PM, Thomas Bächler <thomas at archlinux.org> wrote:
> Tobias Powalowski schrieb:
>>>
>>> "If /var cannot be made a separate partition, it is often preferable
>>> to move /var out of the root partition and into the /usr partition.
>>> (This is sometimes done to reduce the size of the root partition or
>>> when space runs low in the root partition.) However, /var must not be
>>> linked to /usr because this makes separation of /usr and /var more
>>> difficult and is likely to create a naming conflict. Instead, link
>>> /var to /usr/var."
>>>
>>> I think the symlink can go. It's up to the user to decide if he wants
>>> a seperate patition for /var or not. The sysmlink doesn't do anything
>>> in that regard unless I misunderstood somethoiong. Currently, it only
>>> prevents broken packages that use /usr/var instead of /var to stop
>>> working.
>
> Eric, you can commit the changes to filesystems/trunk, I think you are
> right.

OK, I'll do it.

>
>> hrm back to topic, signoff?
>
> Signoff x86_64 (two machines). The post_install message also seems to show
> up properly.
>

signoff i686.


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