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Subject: base-files vs. FHS-2.3
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While dealing with the /var subdirs i hit some differences between Filesy=
stem Hierarchy Standard (current FHS-2.3) and the base-files package.

One point is that /var/tmp is symlinked to volatile/tmp but according to =
the standard this dir contains "Temporary files *preserved between system=
 reboots* ".

Also /var/cache is symlinked to volatile/cache but the standard describes=
 "The data must remain valid between invocations of the application *and =
rebooting the system.* " what i would read in the way that /var/cache sho=
uld be persistent too.

May be there are other differences.

In my opinion the symlinking in base-files is buggy and should be fixed. =
Or am i wrong here?

Steffen

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