Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (FHS) compliancy?

Russ Allbery rra at stanford.edu
Fri Aug 11 23:43:03 UTC 2000


James Ralston <qralston+ml.inn-workers at andrew.cmu.edu> writes:

> IMHO, you'll still need hooks for setting most of the important
> directories, in cases where --enable-fhs-conformity (or whatever) does
> mostly (but not completely) the correct and/or desired thing.

I suppose.  We should look at using more of the standard configure options
where they make sense too (although I hate share, com, and libexec and
don't really want to see anything start using them).

> However, I think by tweaking the existing /usr/local/news hierarchy
> slightly, it would be possible to offer the hooks needed to achieve FHS
> conformity without notably increasing the number of arguments configure
> accepts.  (Heck, it might even be possible to eliminate some of the
> options.)

Sounds good.

> Actually, come to think of it, *is* there actually any component of INN
> that would be useful in the path of end users?  The inews program is the
> only one that springs to mind, but I think that's debatable.

There are some utilities that actually don't depend on INN at all
(convdate, shrinkfile, shlock, simpleftp, getlist, and nntpget), but
nothing all that exciting.

> Perhaps there's no need for a /usr/local/news/bin directory at all;
> perhaps /usr/local/news/sbin would suffice.

In which case I'd rather just call it bin by default, but that can
certainly be configurable.

> Do you have a particular interest in doing this yourself, or would you
> be willing to accept patches?

> I ask because my providing a patch and then tweaking it so that it's
> acceptable might be faster than you providing a patch and then similarly
> tweaking it based on feedback...

Oh, sure, go right ahead.

> Depending on how industrious I'm feeling, I might make up a patch for
> either 2.2.3 or 2.3.0 as well...

There are no current plans to release a 2.2.4 ever, so probably better to
focus on the current development versions.

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Russ Allbery (rra at stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>



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