On Thursday 23 October 2008 06:57:50 pm Andy Theuninck wrote: > I'm trying to put a package together for webmin. It wants to install > to libexec, but if I do that rpmlint (rightly) complains that there > are non-executable text files. Perl files & HTML files are intermixed > and separating them out would be a patching nightmare. With a bit of > sed scripting, I can coax the whole thing into a different base > directory. > > The official packaging guidelines say Fedora follows the Filesystem > Hierarchy Standard, and as I read FHS /opt would be the most > appropriate place to dump this mess. If I try to use /opt/webmin > though, rpmlint pitches a fit about using /opt. Nothing in the > guidelines says I can't use /opt. Can I just ignore all these errors? > > Also, neither the packing guidelines nor FHS make any mention of /var. > Maybe that's a more appropriate spot. > > These are the packaging guidelines I've been referring to: > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Guidelines Actually, the FHS explicitly mentions /var [0] and /opt [1]. And you can't use either for a package included in Fedora. (Or at least, you can't install your package to a /var/PKGNAME prefix.) [0]: http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#PURPOSE31 [1]: http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#PURPOSE14 Regards, -- Conrad Meyer <konrad@xxxxxxxxxx> -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
