On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 08:38:10PM +0100, Daniel Bonniot wrote: > The original tar file is huge (22MB) because it contains the (big) > binaries for three architectures (i386, powerpc and hppa).
You should ask upstream kindly not to do this, and instead ship the binaries in separate tarballs. This is a huge waste of space and download time. > I made the daemon run as user daemon. Since the client needs to write in > the current directory, I made /usr/lib/distributed-folding/ a > daemon.daemon owned directory. The script to start the daemon is in > /usr/sbin. And of course there are init.d scripts to start and stop. Are > these good options? Nothing should write to /usr except during package installation or removal. Read the FHS: http://www.pathname.com/fhs/ Compliance with this standard is specified in the Debian Policy Manual: http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ -- - mdz
