[tahoe-dev] debian package: initscript and FHS

[bertagaz at ptitcanardnoir.org]

On Mon, May 02, 2011 at 03:17:19PM -0400, Greg Troxel wrote:
> 
> So I still don't understand exactly what you want to change in tahoe.
> Do you mean options to create-node to say
> 
>   --storage-dir=
>   --log-dir=
>   --tmp-dir=

Yes, either this way, or having a more global --debian (or
--whateveryouwant) option that would simplify the command line and
configuration. This is open to discussion and was the subject of my mail :
how would you prefer this to be implemented in tahoe?

> which will then leave something in the node config, and have tahoe read
> the node config before finding those directories?  If that's what you
> mean, it's not clear to me that FHS compliance is worth the confusion of
> an alternate arrangment, but I don't expect a patch with such an option
> to be objectionable.
> 
> I do see the --storage-dir option being generally useful.

Sure it is.

> You probably also want to move the twisted pid file; in BSD hier(7) that
> belongs in /var/run.

You're right, in fact I already more or less did it when I created the
init script (which I still don't know the place where I could put in the
sources).

bert.