Re: [Vectorlinux-devel] Packaging Standards Redux

[Sriram D. <sri...@gm...>]

i went thru the tukaani site earlier and in part my idea stems from theirs
:) [ installing as users ]
also i followed  a link from there to the LFS package idea page.. based on
package users.. i did not completely understand it..  but got the hang of
it. basically they want to install each package as a seperate user whose
username is same as the package name.
gives a lot of flexibility [ and its own share of headaches too.. ]

im sorry for introducing a different aspect without clearly identifying it.

1. stadnardization as per JohnB's initial post..  i couldnt agree more
2. installing as users ..  errr.. doesnt look like  its such a popular idea
so far.. so lets give it some rest for the time being maybe?


cheers
ram


On 4/8/06, Jose J. Rodriguez <jo...@gm...> wrote:
>
> On 4/8/06, joh...@gm... <joh...@gm...> wrote:
> > Some programs create their configuration files in an etc directory. I
> have
> > seen some packages where such an etc directory was a subdirectory under
> /usr
> > or /usr/X11R6. Since we are discussing standards for building packages
> with
> > VL6, I believe that one of the arguments that should be passed to just
> about
> > all configure scripts is --sysconfdir=3D/etc as opposed to letting the
> > sysconfdir setting default to a sub under --prefix=3D/usr.
> >
> > While I'm on this thread, some programs also create local data, notably
> dbus,
> > hal, and samba, among others. I want to propose that we explicitly pass
> > --localstatedir=3D/var to the configure script for such programs where
> local
> > state data is created.
> >
> > Thoughts on these ideas, please.
> >
>
> I agree on /var, since this is sometimes mounted on a separate
> partition even. On /etc, I had my misgivings at first, thinking that
> programs that install to /usr should use /usr/etc; but after careful
> thought and checking out /usr/local/etc (found it empty), /usr/etc
> (only sane.d, printcap and wgetrc) and /opt/kde/etc (only xdg and
> ksysguarddrc), I realised that, at least the apps I've packaged, and
> also any others I've installed, use /etc anyway. It has the added
> advantage of making it easier to backup such info.
>
> Regards,
> Joe1962
>
>
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