On 05/17/2011 09:33 AM, Bruno Cornec wrote:
> Martin Baehr said on Tue, May 17, 2011 at 05:16:25PM +0200:
>
>> i get the impression however that compared to the FHS these documents
>> are much more descriptive and not prescriptive. they simply document the
>> existing structure and don't set rules.
>
> Do you think it could be worth to work on a compliance script ? I find a
> standard without tool to support them less usefull.
>
> I think it could help producers of OSes provide a result of compliance
> of their system to the FHS x.y. Could even lead to a certification label.
> Could also help showing the differences, that could then be discussed
> for further versions of the FHS.
>
> And the tool just reports results, but again doesn't force the system in
> any way.

There's some code in an LSB testsuite for this, since LSB references 
FHS.  It would likely have to be ripped out of the framework to make it 
a little more standalone, but possibly easier than starting from 
scratch. (it's all shell code, but it's got plenty of calls inside it 
that are particular to the framework)



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