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

Thomas Bächler thomas at archlinux.org
Sun Mar 8 18:02:42 EDT 2009


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.

> hrm back to topic, signoff?

Signoff x86_64 (two machines). The post_install message also seems to 
show up properly.


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