Hi James, I made scid rpm package following "Fedora Packaging Guidelines" [1]. It recommends to avoid relocatable packages. For instance they say that relocatable package can not be installed by yum. I guess it is strong argument against relocatable package.
I do not see any inconvenience in keeping scid in /usr, especially if you install it using package manager. [1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines Best regards, Mikhail Kalenkov. 2014-05-10 1:21 GMT+04:00 James K. Williams <james.k.willi...@comcast.net>: > This is a message to Mikhail Kalenkov, who was kind enough to build a scid > RPM for Fedora available at http://katrine.lpi.ru/kalenkov/. > > Thank you very much for providing the RPM. It is much, much simpler than > having to build scid from source code. But I have a suggestion. Can you > please modify the package to be relocatable? Right now, it installs scid in > /usr/bin. I would prefer to install it in /opt, which is the preferred > directory in the Linux FHS standard for installing third-party applications. > I like to preserve /usr/bin and /bin for operating system user-level > commands. > > The current RPM is unrelocatable, which you can verify by typing > > rpm -qi scid > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Is your legacy SCM system holding you back? Join Perforce May 7 to find out: > • 3 signs your SCM is hindering your productivity > • Requirements for releasing software faster > • Expert tips and advice for migrating your SCM now > http://p.sf.net/sfu/perforce > _______________________________________________ > Scid-users mailing list > Scid-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/scid-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Is your legacy SCM system holding you back? Join Perforce May 7 to find out: • 3 signs your SCM is hindering your productivity • Requirements for releasing software faster • Expert tips and advice for migrating your SCM now http://p.sf.net/sfu/perforce _______________________________________________ Scid-users mailing list Scid-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/scid-users
