Hello RJ!   
      
   Sunday August 09 2015 12:56, you wrote to Sean Dennis:   
      
      
   If you look at my changes for 1.0.4, I changed the coding to cover for /home   
   but cannot remember if I used the Â$MBSE_ROOT or just re-hardcoded it.   
      
   If the later will need to be re-visited as this really should be cleaned up.   
      
   Next will be if someone whish to move from /opt to say /home and needs to have   
   the system automatically readjust the paths on the message and file bases and   
   I did not do that as I could not find where the update code is.   
      
   Vince   
      
      
    > 18 Jul 15 20:18, you wrote to mark lewis:   
      
    SD>> 18 Jul 15 17:17, you wrote to Vince Coen:   
      
    ml>>> i'm rather tossed up about whether to install to /home on a   
    ml>>> separate drive/partition as i generally (try to) do or to   
    ml>>> install to /opt and have that on another drive/partition...   
      
    SD>> MBSE was designed to be installed in /opt.   
      
    >    I don't know about "designed" but it was certain implemented that   
    > way, given the number of places where that was hardcoded.  Which, btw,   
    > I consider to be a bug in the build system (which admittedly I still   
    > need to write up as such) as besides anything else, it makes it a pain   
    > to do (for intance) a Debian package properly.   
      
    >    I have done some work (in a forked development version) for where   
    > at least some of the changes for the install paths need to be but   
    > still need to tranlate that to patches that can be used in the Debian   
    > package build.   
      
      
    SD>>   The author specifies that   
    SD>> and it was explained to me that doesn't break the LFS that way   
    SD>> either.   
      
    >    Well, that's perhaps not entirely true [1]:   
      
    > "Variable data of the program packages in /opt must be installed in   
    > /var/opt/'package-name"   
      
    >    Under '/opt/package-name' is supposed to be where the static files   
    > go, which isn't how mbsebbs is currently set up...   
      
      
      
    SD>> I have /opt installed on a separate 320GB hard drive for ease of   
    SD>> backup and the ability to switch distros if need be without   
    SD>> totally breaking my MBSE install.   
      
    >    I would think that for that be able to work correctly, may depend   
    > on the versions of the needed library files...   
      
      
      
    > RJ   
      
    > [1]   
    > http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Filesystem-Hierarchy/html/Linux-Filesyst   
    > em-Hierar chy.html   
      
      
      
   Vince   
      
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