On Tuesday 21 February 2006 17:51, Stefano Melchior wrote: > On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 08:14:50AM -0800, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > Hi Matt,
> > On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 12:02:40PM +0100, Stefano Melchior wrote: > > > Once discovered the issue and find the workaround [1], I am wondering > > > why, if you moved uml_net from /usr/bin to /usr/lib/uml/, you left the > > > other uml_* executable on the first dir. > > This was to comply with the FHS: > > http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html > > uml_net is not intended to be executed by a user, only invoked as an > > auxiliary program by UML itself. > > I discussed this with Jeff at the time, and he agreed that it should > > move, but never moved it upstream apparently. > > I patched the Debian UML sources to match. > > > Is it worthy to move all of them to /usr/lib/uml/? > > No, see above. > Ok, I understood, thank you. > On the Makefile of uml_net source, and I read: > BIN_DIR ?= /usr/bin > If Jeff, Paolo and the UML devel team all agree, we can patch it and > transform the line in: > BIN_DIR ?= /usr/lib/uml Yep, but we need also the symlink in /usr/bin. I think it's not the case to break compatibility. Send me the patch so I integrate it in next uml-utilities release. > The same with uml_switch, isn't it? No - uml_switch *must* be run by the user and is *never* run by UML. -- Inform me of my mistakes, so I can keep imitating Homer Simpson's "Doh!". Paolo Giarrusso, aka Blaisorblade (Skype ID "PaoloGiarrusso", ICQ 215621894) http://www.user-mode-linux.org/~blaisorblade ___________________________________ Yahoo! Messenger with Voice: chiama da PC a telefono a tariffe esclusive http://it.messenger.yahoo.com ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=110944&bid=241720&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ User-mode-linux-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/user-mode-linux-devel
