Re: need opinions from sysadmins on where reiser4progs should install

2005-11-25 Thread Chester R. Hosey
David Masover wrote: I don't see anything that makes a packaged reiser4progs better than an unpackaged one, except for the two things you're defeating with any custom version: dependencies and automatic updates. One big benefit is that installed files are never lost. It's often difficult to

Re: need opinions from sysadmins on where reiser4progs should install

2005-11-22 Thread David Masover
michael chang wrote: On 11/21/05, Hans Reiser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Vitaly Fertman wrote: On Monday 21 November 2005 10:09, Hans Reiser wrote: Philippe GramoullИ wrote: Hello, On Sun, 20 Nov 2005 05:07:23 +0100 rvalles [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | When I run make install on

Re: need opinions from sysadmins on where reiser4progs should install

2005-11-22 Thread Hubert Chan
On Tue, 22 Nov 2005 13:33:44 -0600, David Masover [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: michael chang wrote: or to actually put package building scripts for package-handling distros in the source package (or use something like checkinstall, provided it doesn't conflict too bad). [You can also did what

Re: need opinions from sysadmins on where reiser4progs should install

2005-11-21 Thread Vitaly Fertman
On Monday 21 November 2005 10:09, Hans Reiser wrote: Philippe GramoullИ wrote: Hello, On Sun, 20 Nov 2005 05:07:23 +0100 rvalles [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | When I run make install on something and haven't specified a prefix on | configure, I expect /usr/local to be used. If I

Re: need opinions from sysadmins on where reiser4progs should install

2005-11-21 Thread Hans Reiser
Vitaly Fertman wrote: On Monday 21 November 2005 10:09, Hans Reiser wrote: Philippe GramoullИ wrote: Hello, On Sun, 20 Nov 2005 05:07:23 +0100 rvalles [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | When I run make install on something and haven't specified a prefix on | configure, I expect /usr/local

Re: need opinions from sysadmins on where reiser4progs should install

2005-11-21 Thread michael chang
On 11/21/05, Hans Reiser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Vitaly Fertman wrote: On Monday 21 November 2005 10:09, Hans Reiser wrote: Philippe GramoullИ wrote: Hello, On Sun, 20 Nov 2005 05:07:23 +0100 rvalles [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | When I run make install on something and

Re: need opinions from sysadmins on where reiser4progs should install

2005-11-20 Thread Philippe Gramoullé
Hello, On Sun, 20 Nov 2005 05:07:23 +0100 rvalles [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | When I run make install on something and haven't specified a prefix on | configure, I expect /usr/local to be used. If I wanted /, I'd have | specified that on configure time. If it installed in / by default, it

Re: need opinions from sysadmins on where reiser4progs should install

2005-11-20 Thread Hans Reiser
Philippe Gramoullé wrote: Hello, On Sun, 20 Nov 2005 05:07:23 +0100 rvalles [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | When I run make install on something and haven't specified a prefix on | configure, I expect /usr/local to be used. If I wanted /, I'd have | specified that on configure time. If it

Re: need opinions from sysadmins on where reiser4progs should install

2005-11-20 Thread Hubert Chan
On Sun, 20 Nov 2005 23:09:01 -0800, Hans Reiser [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Ok, I propose the following: search the standard locations for where it is currently, tell the user, ask the user if they want to rename those versions to *.old if the install of the new one succeeds, and then prompt for

Re: need opinions from sysadmins on where reiser4progs should install

2005-11-19 Thread rvalles
On Thu, Nov 17, 2005 at 05:06:43PM +0100, Philippe Gramoullé wrote: So should a crash occur and /usr becomes corrupted, well, at least / is mounted and i could reiserfsck partitions right away, handy when the server is several thousand kilometers away :) I expect to do the same for

Re: need opinions from sysadmins on where reiser4progs should install

2005-11-17 Thread Philippe Gramoullé
Hello Hans, On Sat, 12 Nov 2005 23:17:37 -0800 Hans Reiser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | What do the sysadmins on the list think? | | Hans Personally, for Reiserfs V3, i always compiled reiserfsprogs statically and installed the tools in /sbin. Mainly because, we used to have /usr on a

Re: need opinions from sysadmins on where reiser4progs should install

2005-11-16 Thread Hans Reiser
Clifford Beshers wrote: http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#SBINSYSTEMBINARIES Hans Reiser wrote: currently it installs mkfs.reiser4 and such in /usr/local/sbin This is not found by default paths for most roots, and seems unlikely to be where I would want it to go if I was

Re: need opinions from sysadmins on where reiser4progs should install

2005-11-16 Thread Paul Jarc
Hans Reiser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Clifford Beshers wrote: http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#SBINSYSTEMBINARIES well, this says /sbin as I read it. Thanks for the URL Clifford! The FHS doesn't specify what the default installation prefix for a source tarball should be. That

Re: need opinions from sysadmins on where reiser4progs should install

2005-11-14 Thread Tom Vier
On Sat, Nov 12, 2005 at 11:17:37PM -0800, Hans Reiser wrote: What do the sysadmins on the list think? Doesn't matter to me, fwiw. If i were to build it manually, i'd run ./configure --prefix=/usr/local. A distribution would use --prefix=/ in its build scripts. /usr/local might be a safer

Re: need opinions from sysadmins on where reiser4progs should install

2005-11-14 Thread Hubert Chan
On Sat, 12 Nov 2005 23:17:37 -0800, Hans Reiser [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: currently it installs mkfs.reiser4 and such in /usr/local/sbin This is not found by default paths for most roots, and seems unlikely to be where I would want it to go if I was sysadmin I would never install

Re: need opinions from sysadmins on where reiser4progs should install

2005-11-13 Thread Petteri Räty
Hans Reiser wrote: currently it installs mkfs.reiser4 and such in /usr/local/sbin This is not found by default paths for most roots, and seems unlikely to be where I would want it to go if I was sysadmin I would never install mkfs.anything unless I wanted it in /sbin. but then I am

Re: need opinions from sysadmins on where reiser4progs should install

2005-11-13 Thread Gorazd Golob
re! I guess that according to LSB it's the only way - to install it into /usr/local/sbin - because it's additional installed software and does not come with default distribution. If reiser4progs is package included in distribution then it should be installed /sbin or /usr/sbin. that's my

Re: need opinions from sysadmins on where reiser4progs should install

2005-11-13 Thread Clifford Beshers
http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#SBINSYSTEMBINARIES Hans Reiser wrote: currently it installs mkfs.reiser4 and such in /usr/local/sbin This is not found by default paths for most roots, and seems unlikely to be where I would want it to go if I was sysadmin I would never