Re: [OmniOS-discuss] file system organisation for pkg packages

2013-09-26 Thread Eric Sproul
On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 7:29 AM, Tobias Oetiker t...@oetiker.ch wrote: Folks, I have started to create packages for omnios and I am a bit at a loss as to packaging 'standards' ... With omnios getting more popular, I think it would be a good move to have some standards as to where things

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] file system organisation for pkg packages

2013-09-26 Thread Tobias Oetiker
Hi Eric, Today Eric Sproul wrote: On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 7:29 AM, Tobias Oetiker t...@oetiker.ch wrote: Folks, I have started to create packages for omnios and I am a bit at a loss as to packaging 'standards' ... With omnios getting more popular, I think it would be a good move

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] file system organisation for pkg packages

2013-09-26 Thread Michael Rasmussen
On Thu, 26 Sep 2013 10:24:46 -0400 Eric Sproul espr...@omniti.com wrote: I have tended to prefer the SysV style of /opt/app or /opt/vendor so that the entire application set is under a single top-level directory. This makes it simple to avoid conflicting with apps from other sources, which

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] file system organisation for pkg packages

2013-09-26 Thread Chris Nehren
On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 16:55:04 +0200, Tobias Oetiker wrote: from a system management point of view I like to have a simple rule to decide where the config is and where the 'data' is ... so keeping the application in /opt/vendor is perfect for the static part of the application ... but

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] file system organisation for pkg packages

2013-09-26 Thread Michael Rasmussen
On Thu, 26 Sep 2013 17:59:47 +0200 (CEST) Tobias Oetiker t...@oetiker.ch wrote: having shared libraries in /opt/vendor should not be much of a when compiling things with -R ... and pkg-config This is also find by me. I just love the idea of system and userland in different pools. Consider

[OmniOS-discuss] file system organisation for pkg packages

2013-09-25 Thread Tobias Oetiker
Folks, I have started to create packages for omnios and I am a bit at a loss as to packaging 'standards' ... With omnios getting more popular, I think it would be a good move to have some standards as to where things should go on the system ... good old /opt/X /etc/opt/X /var/opt/X come to