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Subject: FHS compliancy
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>Number:         13407
>Category:       misc
>Synopsis:       FHS compliancy
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          closed
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          change-request
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Thu Aug 26 23:30:01 PDT 1999
>Closed-Date:    Thu Aug 26 23:48:39 PDT 1999
>Last-Modified:  Fri Aug 27 01:00:01 PDT 1999
>Originator:     Neil Zanella
>Release:        2.2.7
>Organization:
Memorial University
>Environment:
FreeBSD fermat 2.2.7-RELEASE FreeBSD 2.2.7-RELEASE #0: Sat J i386
>Description:
The machine is not compliant with the File Hierarchy Standard set
forth at <http://www.pathname.com/fhs/> (version 2.0) as far as the
requirements of certain directories (eg. /bin and /usr/bin etc...)go.
Complying with FHS means that scripts on a heterogenous network of
FreeBSD, Linux, and eventually Unix systems would become much more portable and
hence would be in the interest of everyone.
>How-To-Repeat:

>Fix:
Move the relevant files to the standard places according to FHS.

>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
State-Changed-From-To: open->closed  
State-Changed-By: cpiazza 
State-Changed-When: Thu Aug 26 23:48:39 PDT 1999 
State-Changed-Why:  
This is not a bug, there are more appropriate places to discuss 
this than a bug report.  For the record I contend that *they* should 
be using *our* hierarchy as outlined in hier(7). 

From: Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@mithrandr.moria.org>
To: nzanella@cs.mun.ca
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: misc/13407: FHS compliancy
Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1999 08:51:16 +0200

 On Thu 1999-08-26 (23:26), nzanella@cs.mun.ca wrote:
 > >Number:         13407
 > >Category:       misc
 > >Synopsis:       FHS compliancy
 
 > The machine is not compliant with the File Hierarchy Standard set
 > forth at <http://www.pathname.com/fhs/> (version 2.0) as far as the
 > requirements of certain directories (eg. /bin and /usr/bin etc...)go.
 > Complying with FHS means that scripts on a heterogenous network of
 > FreeBSD, Linux, and eventually Unix systems would become much more
 > portable and hence would be in the interest of everyone.
 
 Could you supply a (possibly selective) list, perhaps?  Possibly with
 reasons?  You need to give a slightly more in-depth account of the
 problem. (since the site seems inapproachable from my current location)
 
 Thinking ahead, would a "fhs-compliant" package which was separate from
 the build system, and simply created the necessary symlinks, suit your
 needs?
 
 Also, have you read hier(7)?  As far as I can ascertain, we share these
 conventions with at least our sibling BSDs.
 
 Neil
 -- 
 Neil Blakey-Milner
 nbm@rucus.ru.ac.za
 

From: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>
To: nzanella@cs.mun.ca
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: misc/13407: FHS compliancy 
Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1999 08:52:11 +0200

 On Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:26:05 MST, nzanella@cs.mun.ca wrote:
 
 > The machine is not compliant with the File Hierarchy Standard set
 > forth at <http://www.pathname.com/fhs/> (version 2.0) as far as the
 > requirements of certain directories (eg. /bin and /usr/bin etc...)go.
 > Complying with FHS means that scripts on a heterogenous network of
 > FreeBSD, Linux, and eventually Unix systems would become much more
 > portable and hence would be in the interest of everyone.
 
 If you tell us _which_ files and directories you think should be moved,
 where _from_ and where _to_, we might be able to do something with your
 PR.
 
 As it stands, though, it's pretty content-free. :-(
 
 Are you in a position to send more specific information?
 
 Ciao,
 Sheldon.
 

From: Neil Zanella <nzanella@math.mun.ca>
To: Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@mithrandr.moria.org>
Cc: nzanella@cs.mun.ca, freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: misc/13407: FHS compliancy
Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1999 05:33:19 -0230 (NDT)

 On Fri, 27 Aug 1999, Neil Blakey-Milner wrote:
 
 > Could you supply a (possibly selective) list, perhaps?  Possibly with
 > reasons?  You need to give a slightly more in-depth account of the
 > problem. (since the site seems inapproachable from my current location)
 
 The document should at least be approchable from any location as it
 resides at <ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/docs/fhs/fhs-2.0.tar.gz>.
 All the details are in that document. I am sorry about running the
 old 2.2.7 version of FreeBSD but I am not the systems administrator
 and so I'm afraid I cannot perform the upgrade although the sys admin
 will certainly upgrade the machine in the future.
 
 The standard also contains instructions on how to subscribe to the mailing
 list fhs-discuss. This is the main place for discussing future changes
 to the standard.
 
 > Thinking ahead, would a "fhs-compliant" package which was separate from
 > the build system, and simply created the necessary symlinks, suit your
 > needs?
 
 Well, if there was such an fhs-compliant package then it would be in the
 interest of all that such a package would get installed by default.
 
 Best Regards and thanks for your cooperation,
 
 Neil Zanella
 nzanella@cs.mun.ca
 
 
>Unformatted:
