Rich Megginson wrote:> > Can you describe exactly what you are trying to do? > > Not directly with RPM. The Fedora DS RPMs we provide are not > relocateable. They abide by the FHS - > http://directory.fedoraproject.org/wiki/FHS_Packaging > > If you want to build it from source, you can provide a specific prefix > or use the default prefix /opt/fedora-ds. > > There may be other ways to achieve what you want to do. Please provide > more details. >If you remember older releases came as tar balls which allowed me to determine where I wanted the software and create a file system ahead of time. Since it started using RPMs, I can no longer build a server and create all of the file systems ahead of time, because how will I know if they decide to move it next week? next month? next year? Thanks, Gene Poole
Rich Megginson
2008-Jul-21 17:51 UTC
Re: [Fedora-directory-users] Re: Fedora DS Installation
Gene Poole wrote:> > Rich Megginson wrote: > > > > Can you describe exactly what you are trying to do? > > > > Not directly with RPM. The Fedora DS RPMs we provide are not > > relocateable. They abide by the FHS - > > http://directory.fedoraproject.org/wiki/FHS_Packaging > > > > If you want to build it from source, you can provide a specific prefix > > or use the default prefix /opt/fedora-ds. > > > > There may be other ways to achieve what you want to do. Please provide > > more details. > > > > If you remember older releases came as tar balls which allowed me to > determine where I wanted the software and create a file system ahead > of time. Since it started using RPMs, I can no longer build a server > and create all of the file systems ahead of time, because how will I > know if they decide to move it next week? next month? next year?Some of the directories have always been configurable - log file directory, database directory - so those could be changed to a different filesystem, even in the old format - not during setup, but afterwards. And those are the file systems which you will usually have to worry about, in terms of performance and having enough space.> > Thanks, > Gene Poole > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > -- > Fedora-directory-users mailing list > Fedora-directory-users@redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-directory-users >