[Pkg-puppet-devel] Bug#1070744: Bug#1070744: /usr/bin/puppet: puts non-regeneratable data in /var/cache

[Antoine Beaupré]

On 2024-09-04 10:35:57, Jérôme Charaoui wrote:
> I agree perhaps the default of "/var/cache/puppet/reports" isn't ideal. 
> But instead of changing only "reportdir", we might want to instead 
> change "vardir" from "/var/cache/puppet" to something like 
> "/var/puppet". I'm not sure that anything puppet puts inside "vardir" 
> can really be qualified as "cache"?

That would break the FHS too, no? perhaps /var/spool/puppet or
/var/lib/puppet instead?

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