[Fedora-directory-users] Re: Fedora DS Installation

[Rich Megginson]

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
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