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Subject: Re: storing rpms and tarballs From: Rick Forrister <rickf@crow.jpl.nasa.gov> Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2000 14:09:43 -0700 adm@ipat.com said: > I have a dumb question: Let's suppose I like to keep the RPMs and > occasional tarballs that I DL. Where is the "right" place to keep > them? > I've just been putting them in my home directory, but I want to move > them off of the /home partition. Alan, there's really no canonical placement for spare RPMs & tarballs. Personally I've got an extra partition mounted as /archive, though from an FHS viewpoint, /usr/local/archive might be more correct. As a separate partition I can maintain what I store there across reinstalls or other activity. === Subject: RE: storing rpms and tarballs From: Uncle Meat <kcsmart@worldinter.net> Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2000 16:48:07 -0500 (CDT) On 04-Apr-00 Alan Mead opined: > I have a dumb question: Let's suppose I like to keep the RPMs and > occasional tarballs that I DL. Where is the "right" place to keep them? > > I've just been putting them in my home directory, but I want to move them > off of the /home partition. Any place you prefer that you have write access for. I have a couple of partitions where I store large files that I don't want to download again, as well as files I may need to get restarted after a reinstall should one become necessary. This is in addition to a couple of partitions that have backups of the current system. === Subject: Re: storing rpms and tarballs From: Gustav Schaffter <gustav@schaffter.com> Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2000 10:11:51 +0200 I'd suggest /usr/local/whatever === Subject: Re: storing rpms and tarballs From: "Thomas Ribbrock \(Design/DEG\)" <argathin@gmx.net> Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2000 09:33:00 +0100 On Tue, Apr 04, 2000 at 03:31:21PM -0500, Alan Mead wrote: > I have a dumb question: Let's suppose I like to keep the RPMs and > occasional tarballs that I DL. Where is the "right" place to keep them? [...] I usually keep them in /usr/local/src/(RPM|SRPM|TAR), but there's no "right" (as in canonical) place for them. === Subject: Re: storing rpms and tarballs From: "Steven W. Orr" <steveo@world.std.com> Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2000 09:27:21 -0400 (EDT) I have a /usr/src/redhat/NON-RPMS ===