RFC: MacPorts Filesystem Hierarchy Standard

Rainer Müller raimue at macports.org
Thu Mar 6 06:04:04 PST 2008


js wrote:
>>>   - db
>>  >   Miscellaneous, automatically generated system-specific database
>>  >   files. For example, ... what?
>>  >   (Note that currently mysql data directory is created here. This is
>>  >   not correct.)
>>
>>  No idea what is meant to reside here. Sure, mysqlX could also go into
>>  var/mysqlX.
> 
> BSDs save system-specific data like locate.database here.
> might be good place to put macports dir.

var/macports moved from var/db/dports in the DarwinPorts -> MacPorts 
rename effort.

Rainer


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