On Tue, 2006-02-14 at 15:05 -0500, Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-02-15 at 08:54 +1300, Michael J Knox wrote:
> > I am attempting to package bro (bro-ids.org) and have a couple of
> > questions.
> >
> > When bro is installed it installs its self into /usr, which is fine, but
> > it also creates a bunch of directories like:
> >
> > /usr/archive
> > /usr/logs
> > /usr/policy
> > /usr/reports
> > /usr/scripts
> > /usr/site
> > /usr/var
> > /usr/etc
> >
> > Now I am using the "%configure" macro.
> >
> > Are the any issues, reservations, conflicts of packaging policies that
> > the above will create?
>
> I don't think I've ever seen the FHS so blatantly violated. Most of
> those things look like they should go under /usr/share/bro, with the
> exception of logs, var, and etc. And possibly reports.
Bro-ids has some seriously messed up Makefile.am files. Instead of
using automake to determine directories they hardcode everything to
${prefix}/<dir>. I'm wondering if it even honors DESTDIR. They install
a VERSION file into ${prefix}/etc. I haven't looked at the code but my
guess is it hard codes the locations of its data files. I would say
this all needs to be fixed to use the proper autotools macros before it
can be packaged correctly.
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John (J5) Palmieri <johnp@xxxxxxxxxx>
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