On Wed, 2005-10-26 at 11:07 +0200, Davide Bolcioni wrote: > Mike MacCana wrote: > > > On Linux, most administrators install software by RPM, and no > > distinction is made between 'third party' or distro provided except the > > Packager field. > > Agreed, but RPM-installed software does not usually end up in > /usr/local. True, but this only is a side-effect ... > If I remember the FHS correctly, it is not supposed to end > up there, as /usr/local is reserved to locally installed software and > must be left untouched by a system upgrade. ... of this, because _vendors_ are supposed to install to /usr. => vendor supplied rpms normally do not end up below /usr/local. Also, in a strictly FHS-compliant world, you would install all non-vendor supplied packages to /usr/local and would not replace any vendor supplied package nor file. I.e. to install rpm packages to /usr/local you would have to build them with a different package name and different %_prefix, %_bindir etc., than a vendor would do. As this is beyond most people's capabilities (and because most vendor supplied rpm specs are not prepared for this), most people often simply replace the vendor supplied packages below /usr, instead. Strictly speaking, they violate the FHS, when doing so. Ralf -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
