On Fri, Jun 18, 1999 at 02:17:30AM -0700, Daniel Quinlan wrote: > > Interesting points. However I would suggest that most of the files in > > /etc are about local configurations, and are, in general, not > > shareable. In fact, the FHS defines /etc as being for non-shareable, > > You need to be careful about using the word "share" in the context of > FHS. /usr/share is shareable data -- shareable between machines of > different architectures. > > /etc is machine specific, which is something else. The hierarchy is > *also* not shareable between machines because applications are not > required to guarantee that configuration information can be shared. > For example, try sharing your network configuration or hostname. > > > static data. But what should be done for shareable configuration > > data? Debian uses /etc as the primary place for configuration files, > > be they shareable or not. So maybe we should create an /etc/share > > directory as you suggest. And maybe even an /etc/local directory > > corresponsing to /usr/local? > > > > Maybe I'll bring this up on the FHS list. > > /etc is intended to be the only repository for configuration > information. It is machine specific. However, machine-specific does > not mean that the configuration information in /etc cannot be shared > between machines. This can be done via symbolic links, rdist, or even > some weird overlay filesystem. > > The point is that by forcing programs to call open() on files in /etc > instead of somewhere else, the system administrator has lots of > flexibility. If you have /usr/local/etc and some configuration files > are there and some are in /etc, you lose flexibility. > > /etc/local or /etc/site might be suitable locat, but I'd like to know > exactly what problem we're trying to solve. Unless I'm mistaken, the > original poster wanted to avoid the Debian packaging system, which > actually already does a good job of allowing you to modify configuration > files in /etc.
No... The package puts a file that needs to be modified by the site (and
possibly by the individual machine) in /usr/share.. Perhaps the program
is at fault for doing this. I do know that lintian will generate an
error on the package should I run it with a conffile in /usr/share.
Should such conffiles be in /usr/share ? If not, where should they be?
It's currently symlinked into /etc but I don't much like that idea.
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