On Thu, 18 Jul 2002, Steve Langasek wrote: > Hello, > > Early last year, a patch was accepted into Samba to add a --with-fhs > option to configure. For OSes that aspire to follow the FHS (which > includes most Linux distros, AFAIK), this is a good thing. > Unfortunately, the original patch didn't make Samba's paths completely > FHS-compliant, and things have decayed since then to the point that > current CVS's terminology and usage bears little real resemblance to the > FHS. > > Is anyone within the Samba Team interested in seeing this FHS support > updated and fleshed out? I'd be happy to supply patches to do so, but > if there's really no interest, I may as well create a local patch > instead and spare myself the effort of making this mesh nicely with the > default directory layout. One way or the other, the patch will be there > for Debian's sake, and of course I'd rather see this cleanly integrated > upstream (for the benefit of other Linux distros as well as for our > own benefit), but that would depend on someone on the inside being > willing to follow through on it.
Well, I think that this is important, so I would be interested in seeing the patch. It might not be accepted into Samba 2.2.X, but should be fair game for Samba 3.0.x Regards ----- Richard Sharpe, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
