On Sun, 9 Feb 2003, Caskey Dickson wrote: >On Sun, Feb 09, 2003 at 10:54:02AM +0100, Andreas Aardal Hanssen wrote: >> The /usr/local hierarchy is for use by the system administrator when >> installing software locally. Binc IMAP will go there if you do not specify >> any prefix when building from source. >If it is the case that the RPMs are installing into /opt, I'd like to >recommend that they install themselve into /usr/local. It still perfectly >(and arguably more exactly) conforms to the FHS. Besides, /opt is a bit of a >throwback. Plus there's the warning about not being insulated vs. the host >OS and legacy packages.
The FHS archives suggest that its contributers are looking for a better seperation of the two. According to one thread (you can search this up I guess), Solaris defines /opt as follows: "/opt is the *only* directory to which software that is not part of base Solaris may be delivered." /usr/local, however, is the default location that autoconf chooses if the administrator does not supply a prefix. That might be the reason why tarball installed software ends up in /usr/local. IMHO, packaged software under /usr/local seems a bit off. I'm going to stick with /opt by default for now, and I'll see what I can do to make the package relocatable. This will mess up the paths in the service and conf files, but I guess that the administrators that insist on installing Binc IMAP under /usr/local also know how to edit conf files :-D. >As for the FHS, it very nearly worked out of the box with 1.0.20. I had to >manualy link up a few things in /usr/local and of course manually create the >daemontools run scripts. The rpm bundled deamontools and xinetd scripts are also in the tarball, under service/ and conf/. But it doesn't say anywhere. :-/ Andy -- Andreas Aardal Hanssen | http://www.andreas.hanssen.name/gpg Author of Binc IMAP | Nil desperandum
