Thank you guys for all your comments, they are being very informative. Just as background info, this does qualify as a third party vendor package; the company I work for is exploring different ways in which to distribute its application and I'm trying out RPM for this reason. Regards. Adrián. Greg_Swift@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: >>> %files >>> /usr/local/myAppTopDir/ >>> >> Just a question - any reason in particular why you are using /usr/local >> instead of /opt ? >> >> /usr/local is suppose to be for applications compiled from source on the >> machine, /opt is for third party vendor packages (be they rpm or tarball >> or whatever) >> >> > > Before I start, this is my interpretation of what I've read. I'm open to > being convinced otherwise, this is just what I've gathered over time. Okay, > and go: > > This isn't really a third party vendor package if its his. In that case > its a local package that he is just packaging it for easy distribution on > his own systems. Packaging the application for easy internal deployment > does not change it from locally installed software to third party software. > I'm not saying /opt is not an acceptable location, but at the same time > /usr/local/ is just as acceptable. Per the FHS: > > "The /usr/local hierarchy is for use by the system administrator when > installing software locally. It needs to be safe from being overwritten > when the system software is updated. It may be used for programs and data > that are shareable amongst a group of hosts, but not found in /usr. " [1] > > "/opt is reserved for the installation of add-on application software > packages. " [2] > > If one was to hold true that anything not provided by the OS belongs in > /opt, then one could argue that all of EPEL should be configured for /opt, > and back in Fedora Extras days, all of Extras should have been in /opt. > > When installing into /usr/local/ you do need to make sure that your > application is not writing back to anything in that directory space. > > -greg > > > > [1] http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#USRLOCALLOCALHIERARCHY > [2] > http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#OPTADDONAPPLICATIONSOFTWAREPACKAGES > > _______________________________________________ > Rpm-list mailing list > Rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list > _______________________________________________ Rpm-list mailing list Rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list
