On Tue, 2006-02-14 at 15:21 -0500, John (J5) Palmieri wrote:
> 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.
Sounds like what I was thinking.
Guess I will take a stab at it today, since work is rather quiet.
Michael
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