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  • From: Jeremy Blosser <jblosser-smgl AT firinn.org>
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  • Subject: Re: [SM-Commit] GIT changes to master grimoire by Eric Sandall (3af8bc174a00c8fdb3bf52bbb46185a710129c8f)
  • Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2007 13:48:07 -0500

On Apr 27, Thomas Orgis [thomas-forum AT orgis.org] wrote:
> Am Thu, 26 Apr 2007 15:51:17 -0500
> schrieb Eric Sandall <scm AT sourcemage.org>:
> > +make BINDIR=$INSTALL_ROOT/sbin \
> > + MANDIR=$INSTALL_ROOT/usr/share/man \
> > + KERNELPATH=/usr/src/linux-$(get_kernel_version) \
> > + install
>
> Is this splitting of stuff with $INSTALL_ROOT intended?
> We put the modules into /lib, we look for kernel in /usr, but put binaries
> into $INSTALL_ROOT.
> Well, get_kernel_version also looks in /usr/src/linux-... harcoded.
> So I guess we make an exception for linux source and modules; also since
> INSTALL_ROOT doesn't have to mean "prepare a full system in some chroot".
>
> And second question: Do we allow the tools in /sbin or rather in
> /usr/sbin?
> I've moved them from /usr/local/bin to /usr/sbin since they're system
> binaries.
> One now could argue that getting the wlan up is an important system
> management task that should work without /usr mounted (imagine /usr
> mounted via NFS over WLAN...).
> Personally, I'm OK with that, I just want to have it said here so before
> ppl. come around asking why the FHS we put the stuff into /sbin.

I would rather we leave them in /usr/sbin. People with networked /usr will
need them in /sbin, yes, but they can do that themselves (does this spell
have a ./configure ?). The majority of people don't likely have networked
/usr partitions, no need to crowd everyone's /.

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