| Summary: | ASTERISK-06783: [patch] data dir for read-only data | ||
| Reporter: | Tzafrir Cohen (tzafrir) | Labels: | |
| Date Opened: | 2006-04-14 07:49:15 | Date Closed: | 2006-04-17 12:12:26 |
| Priority: | Major | Regression? | No |
| Status: | Closed/Complete | Components: | Core/General |
| Versions: | Frequency of Occurrence | ||
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| Environment: | Attachments: | ( 0) datadir.diff ( 1) datadir-r20357-20060415-1625.diff ( 2) Makefile-r38-20060415-1610.diff | |
| Description: | The default of Asterisk is to install most things under /var/lib/asterisk (varlibdir) . In the conventions of Linux systems that directory is intended for "state information" of applications. http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#VARLIBVARIABLESTATEINFORMATION Most of the data under /var/lib/asterisk does not change at the run-time of Asterisk: sounds, images, http-static, are all non-varianting. According to the convensions of Linux systems non-varianting data better reside under /usr , with architecture-specific data under /usr/lib and architechture-independent data under /usr/share . For that reason the Debian packages of Asterisk have moved much of the installation of Asterisk to reside under /usr/share/asterisk . http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#USRSHAREARCHITECTUREINDEPENDENTDATA http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#USRLIBLIBRARIESFORPROGRAMMINGANDPA The suggested patch splits "astvarlibdir" (/va/lisb/asterisk) to the original "astvarlibdir" and "astdatadir". The data dir still defaults to the same location as the varlib dir but now can easily be changed. Note that such a change is also useful for anybody who installs Asterisk on a system with limited writable space. /usr/ is intended to contain constant data (e.g.: can be mounted on a read-only NFS share). | ||
| Comments: | By: Joshua C. Colp (jcolp) 2006-04-15 17:54:26 Voila, in trunk starting at revision 20330. Thanks! By: Jason Parker (jparker) 2006-04-15 18:27:33 two new patches - enjoy By: Joshua C. Colp (jcolp) 2006-04-17 12:12:25 This concludes our programming action. Please tune in next week for Hack The Nation! | ||