Thanks for the quick reply! Romain Beauxis wrote: > Le Monday 09 March 2009 12:59:12 Alon Swartz, vous avez écrit : >> The Debian MediaWiki package sets up extensions to be installed in >> /var/lib. According to the FHS, /var/lib holds Variable state information: > (...) >> A more fitting location would be /usr/lib, as it is used for libraries of >> programming and packages. >> >> Seeing that the extensions are more like libraries for the MediaWiki >> package, and that they are most likely installed by the local >> administrator and not the package management system (with the exception >> of the mediawiki-extensions package, which installs to >> /etc/mediawiki-extensions anyway), a more FHS compliant location would >> be /usr/local/lib. > > I think you misundertood the FHS specifications. Firstly, /usr/lib shouldn't > be modified by the administrator, but ony by packages. Locally modified files > go to /usr/local/lib and the like.
I agree, I never meant to imply otherwise. > Secondly, /usr/lib is meant for binary data, whereas extensions, being php > text data, are architecture-independant, and, as such, should go > to /usr/share, or /usr/local/share for custom extensions. Thanks for clearing up the binary data bit, I missed that... /usr/share and /usr/local/share is a better fit, which is why I don't understand why the package symlinks /usr/share/mediawiki/extensions to /var/lib/mediawiki/extensions >From what I understand, /var/lib is meant to hold state information pertaining to the application. State information is data that programs modify while they run. Are extensions considered state information? > Eventually, the mediawiki package does not enforce any specific location for > the extensions, since they are loaded from the configuration file. And this > configuration file belongs in /etc/mediawiki/, which corresponds to the > requirement: > "Users must never need to modify files in /var/lib to configure a package's > operation." In the current configuration, if an administrator would like to install an extension, he would install it into /var/lib/mediawiki/extensions, unless he manually changes the configuration. Alon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
