On Thu, 20 Feb 2003, Dan Mills wrote: >Hi, >On Sunday, February 9, 2003, at 07:37 PM, Caskey Dickson wrote: >> Having do dig around in /opt/<package> and >> figure out which of /opt/<package>/conf or /opt/<package>/etc or even >> the awful >> /opt/<package>/control is the right place to manage something such is >> confusing >> and a waste of the precious little time I have for administration >> tasks. >The FHS explicitly states that the correct location for configuration >files for packages installed in /opt/<package>/ is /etc/opt/<package>/. > See sections 3.7.4 and 3.12.2 of the FHS. >Binc doesn't comply with this, and it probably should.
It's not incompliant to not have configuration files there. False negative. The configuration files are under /opt/<package>/etc/, which is totally allowed. :) The sysadmin is free to symlink the files from /etc/opt/<package>/ to /opt/<package>/etc. Andy -- Andreas Aardal Hanssen | http://www.andreas.hanssen.name/gpg Author of Binc IMAP | Nil desperandum
