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Bug#: 121064
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Status: CLOSED
Resolution: DUPLICATE of bug 84708
Assigned To: Gentoo Linux bug wranglers <bug-wranglers@gentoo.org>
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Reporter: Lindsay Haisley <fmouse-gentoo@fmp.com>
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Description:   Opened: 2006-01-31 08:46 0000 
Current ebuilds of the mailman list server make mailman's mutable data
directory the same as the install directory, i.e. /usr/local/mailman.  Aside
from the obvious issue of having an ebuild install _anything_ under /usr/local
(bug #84708), mutable data should go under /var.  The default var prefix for
mailman is /var/mailman, which is appropriate.  For some reason the mailman
maintainer(s) changed it to /usr/local/mailman.

While modern Linux installations don't generally have a problem with this, the
standard FSH was set up for a reason, and it's concievable that someone might
be installing mailman on a system where everything under /usr is normally set
read-only between installs and updates, and under these circumstances mailman
would fail.  /var is generally considered the appropriate place for spools,
archives and other mutable data that changes as a result of program usage.

------- Comment #1 From Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2006-01-31 08:57:30 0000 ------- 
Please, keep this in one bug...

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 84708 ***

------- Comment #2 From Lindsay Haisley 2006-01-31 09:58:33 0000 ------- 
Perhaps it's sufficiently related to be a duplicate, which is your call, and I
would have filed it there had the summary for Bug #84708 been something more
inclusive, such as "Gentoo mailman filesystem setup is totally foobar!!"  ;-)

Ciao

------- Comment #3 From Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2006-01-31 11:15:32 0000 ------- 
LOL... Closing, please make your point there. ;)
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