Bug#562234: Cache file location in violation of FHS

[Christoph Anton Mitterer]

Hi.

I'm not sure whether it's a good idea to make such exceptions to FHS.
I mean that would dilute it more and more.

Alasdair, could you please tell us which concrete problems you've had?

btw: /boot is not always on non-LVM or really available. I for example  
have my /boot on an USB-stick... (fully encrypted disk including / )

I think it's also difficult to automatically put the backups on a  
non-LVM partition (there might be none).
So I guess it's the users responsibility to make regular backups, but  
perhaps we could put a note to do so in README.Debian


So I support Martin's request that this (the cache) should move, and I  
also would like to see the backups/archives moved.
Guess /var/backups/ is the right place for the former.
What are the archives exactly used for?

If we change the location, would we also have to patch lvmdump?


Cheers,
Chris.

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