[katello-devel] Why do we install into /var/katello

[Ohad Levy]

On Wed, 2011-06-01 at 08:42 -0700, Mike McCune wrote:
> On 06/01/2011 08:06 AM, Lukas Zapletal wrote:
> > On 06/01/2011 05:02 PM, Lukas Zapletal wrote:
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> I am in doubt why do we install in /var/katello. I would expect
> >> /usr/share/katello or /usr/lib/katello more.
> >>
> >> I am working on some spec changes and I am just curious.
> >>
> >> LZ
> >>
> >
> > Should be /var/lib/katello. But anyway...
> >
> > Still expect /usr more.
> >
> 
> Because we don't have the app broken out into read-only areas vs areas 
> that change.  Typically /usr is read only and /var has things that 
> change on an ongoing basis.  Since we are a mix under our rails app:
> 
> ** read only:
> 
> ./extras
> ./spec
> ./public
> ./app
> ./lib
> ./script
> 
> 
> ** contents change during runtime or post-install:
> 
> ./config
> ./db
> ./log
> ./vendor
> ./tmp
> 
> it kinda makes sense to go into /var.  that said, we should *properly* 
> package our app so everything is put into the proper spots in /var, 
> /etc, /usr instead of just dumping it all into /var.  In summary: it is 
> all in /var/ because we haven't spent the time to properly layout the 
> package installation...
> 
> Mike

can i recommend using foreman spec [1] file a reference? we already
covered most of these stuff

Ohad

[1] -
https://github.com/ohadlevy/foreman/blob/develop/extras/spec/foreman.spec