Re: [pacman-dev] File/Path locations

On Fri, 2007-07-13 at 14:19 -0400, Dan McGee wrote:

On 7/13/07, Aaron Griffin wrote:

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On 6/19/07, Andrew Fyfe wrote:

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Dan McGee wrote:

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On 6/4/07, Andrew Fyfe wrote:

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Default behaviour for 'pacman --root' pacman --root /foobar Root Dir : /foobar DB Path : /foobar/$localstatedir/lib/pacman Cache Dir : /foobar/$localstatedir/cache/pacman/pkg

Lock File : /foobar/$localstatedir/run/pacman.lck Cfg File : /foobar/$sysconfigdir/pacman.conf

This is a reply to the whole email, but I wanted to highlight stuff from above. This is no longer the case- I just eliminated this behavior. Every path is independent of the others. ROOTDIR is *completely* seperate now.

Sorry this is still bugging me, having to type 'pacman -r ... -b ... -c ...' is a pain in the ass. 99% of the time when I'm using 'pacman -r' I want the same fs layout with a different root dir prefix. Am I the only one that uses 'pacman -r' like this most of the time.

I actually might agree with Andrew here. Usually when I use -r, it's like "hey lets install bash in my homedir" or "lets make a chroot dir that I can use later". I want to use everything else the parent system has, as far as cache and configs go.

I dunno, what are all the use cases for using -r? Can someone list a use case where specifying all dirs is common?

Well my original thought was flexibility. Before you couldn't do some things that you can do now. Examples: 1. I want to build a chroot without doing crazy rsync/hardlinking of the pacman cache directory. 2. I want to make a more secure chroot. I don't want the pacman DB, cached packages, or the logfile in the actual chroot.

And before I made all these changes, I found it odd that the logfile was always specified with an absolute path but nothing else was.

To be honest, I'm not sure of all the use cases of --root. If anyone wants to chime in on this it would be appreciated.

-Dan

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Dan, Your item #1 can easily be accomplished using mount: mount --bind /var/cache/pacman/pkg chroot/var/cache/pacman/pkg Don't forget to unmount before cleaning out your chroot environment! :) IMHO -r should change all paths for general usage and the flexibility of Dan's approach would allow single paths to be overridden. k