On Tue, 2005-11-15 at 19:47, Joerg Schilling wrote: > GNU The youngest set of tools (starting around 1986). > My current idea is to put them into /usr/sps/* as Linux > users may expect them in the same hierarchy as the rest of > free software. It may be a good idea to create a second location > (e.g. /usr/gnu/bin) with symlinks to /usr/sps/bin/<gnu-tool> to > document the origin and to allow to use PATH to set up a > specific precedence order.
Obviously you can do what you like for your distro but on Solaris /usr/sps isn't likely to be the chosen location it is much more likely to be /usr/gnu where /usr/gnu is strictly for the GNU utils that conflict with stuff in /usr/bin as traditional Solaris stuff or /usr/xpg?/bin as XPG compliant versions where they differ incompatibly from Solaris. /usr/gnu should not be used for any old thing that happens to be under a GPL or LPGL license because it isn't /usr/gpl it is /usr/gnu/ What if anything do you intend to do in SchilliX for XPG compliance where there is a difference between XPG4, XPG5 and XPG6 ? > - Put all BSD tools into /usr/bsd/* Are there really that many of them are different from the /usr/bin versions or /usr/ucb versions ? Ie they are actually conflicts rather than commands that don't exist in /usr/bin on Solaris today ? BTW this isn't the best forum for this discussion. This is an architecture discussion and is probably best moved to [EMAIL PROTECTED], it is the ARC forum where we have traditionally had discussions like this at Sun. Best to join that alias and start a fresh thread there rather than continuing as a sub topic on the "forking" thread. -- Darren J Moffat _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
