12:41 a.m.
hi,
I am working on packaging an upstream (aerospike) which presently puts
some of its file in /opt/aerospike.
The two main folders in use (by upstream) are
/opt/aerospike/sys/udf/lua - This has the user defined lua functions
shipped with the package.
/opt/aerospike/usr/udf/ - This will have the user's custom UDFs.
What will be the right place in FHS to put the above two directories when
packaging for Fedora? Should these go into /usr/share/aerospike or some
place in /var?
regards
Anshu Prateek
1:20 a.m.
Open a ticket in FPC, you can may only use directories in the
/opt/fedora, however fpc can help you decide whether it's a valid use
of /opt and what subdirectory should be allocated for your use [1][2]
[1]
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#Limited_usage_of_.2Fop...
[2] http://www.lanana.org/lsbreg/providers/providers.txt
2015-01-04 2:11 GMT-04:30 Anshu Prateek <ansh.prat(a)gmail.com>:
hi,
I am working on packaging an upstream (aerospike) which presently puts some
of its file in /opt/aerospike.
The two main folders in use (by upstream) are
/opt/aerospike/sys/udf/lua - This has the user defined lua functions
shipped with the package.
/opt/aerospike/usr/udf/ - This will have the user's custom UDFs.
What will be the right place in FHS to put the above two directories when
packaging for Fedora? Should these go into /usr/share/aerospike or some
place in /var?
regards
Anshu Prateek
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1:42 a.m.
Thanks echevemaster.
Created https://fedorahosted.org/fpc/ticket/487
On Sun Jan 04 2015 at 12:51:16 PM Eduardo Javier Echeverria Alvarado <
echevemaster(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Open a ticket in FPC, you can may only use directories in the
/opt/fedora, however fpc can help you decide whether it's a valid use
of /opt and what subdirectory should be allocated for your use [1][2]
[1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#Limited_
usage_of_.2Fopt.2C_.2Fetc.2Fopt.2C_and_.2Fvar.2Fopt
[2] http://www.lanana.org/lsbreg/providers/providers.txt
2015-01-04 2:11 GMT-04:30 Anshu Prateek <ansh.prat(a)gmail.com>:
> hi,
>
> I am working on packaging an upstream (aerospike) which presently puts
some
> of its file in /opt/aerospike.
>
> The two main folders in use (by upstream) are
>
> /opt/aerospike/sys/udf/lua - This has the user defined lua functions
> shipped with the package.
> /opt/aerospike/usr/udf/ - This will have the user's custom UDFs.
>
> What will be the right place in FHS to put the above two directories when
> packaging for Fedora? Should these go into /usr/share/aerospike or some
> place in /var?
>
> regards
> Anshu Prateek
>
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2:01 a.m.
On 01/04/2015 07:41 AM, Anshu Prateek wrote:
hi,
I am working on packaging an upstream (aerospike) which presently puts
some of its file in /opt/aerospike.
The two main folders in use (by upstream) are
/opt/aerospike/sys/udf/lua - This has the user defined lua functions
shipped with the package.
/opt/aerospike/usr/udf/ - This will have the user's custom UDFs.
What will be the right place in FHS to put the above two directories
when packaging for Fedora? Should these go into /usr/share/aerospike or
some place in /var?
Impossible to tell without having seen the sources and without knowing
the contents. /usr/share/<package>, /usr/lib/<package>,
/usr/{lib,lib64}/<package> would seem likely candidates.
Packages installing to /opt are not allowed in Fedora. In most cases,
such packages are simply incorrectly configured.
Ralf
3:34 a.m.
On Sun, Jan 4, 2015 at 3:01 AM, Ralf Corsepius <rc040203(a)freenet.de> wrote:
On 01/04/2015 07:41 AM, Anshu Prateek wrote:
>
> hi,
>
> I am working on packaging an upstream (aerospike) which presently puts
> some of its file in /opt/aerospike.
>
> The two main folders in use (by upstream) are
>
> /opt/aerospike/sys/udf/lua - This has the user defined lua functions
> shipped with the package.
> /opt/aerospike/usr/udf/ - This will have the user's custom UDFs.
>
> What will be the right place in FHS to put the above two directories
> when packaging for Fedora? Should these go into /usr/share/aerospike or
> some place in /var?
I think the useful place to put it is to get aerospike to publish
their SRPM, especially their spec files. I'm looking at the RHEL rpm
for their c-client tool, and it shoves some things in /op, and some in
/usr/lib for the 64-bit version, which rather violates the /usr/lib64
location for the libraries.
Impossible to tell without having seen the sources and without
knowing the
contents. /usr/share/<package>, /usr/lib/<package>,
/usr/{lib,lib64}/<package> would seem likely candidates.
I looked at this once before and it started making me twitch. Anyone
who publishes a system specific tarball, and puts the sources and
several RPM's *inside* the same tarbal but can't be bothered to
include a .spec or SRPM is just being goofy.
Packages installing to /opt are not allowed in Fedora. In most cases,
such
packages are simply incorrectly configured.
Ralf
The "FileSystem Hierarchy", "File Hierarchy System", and its other
three-letter descriptions had their last official release in 2004.
It's in the process of an update to version 3.0. The beta version is
at http://www.linuxbase.org/betaspecs/fhs/fhs.html. It's pretty clear
that "/opt is reserved for the installation of add-on application
software packages.".
It's common for third party packages that require their own
non-system-standard libraries and binaries for Perl, Python, MySQL,
HTTPD, and god knows Python and Ruby use /opt to have a modular
installation that does not step on your system libraries. God knows
that commercial software vendors use it, and even some open source
vendors like Opscode use it for "chef" software.
Also note that Fedora does not follow the FHS word-for-word. The
merging of /bin with /usr/bin, /sbin with /usr/sbin, etc. is a clear
violation of even the latest proposed FHS. And the use of
"/var/run/meda" for user-owned mounted media, built into "systemd",
is
a pretty clear violation of the specification for all three "/var",
"/run", and "/media. Getting violated 3 ways at once, well, I hope it
was thrilling for *everyone*.
5:19 a.m.
On 01/04/2015 10:34 AM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
On Sun, Jan 4, 2015 at 3:01 AM, Ralf Corsepius
<rc040203(a)freenet.de> wrote:
> On 01/04/2015 07:41 AM, Anshu Prateek wrote:
>>
>> hi,
>>
>> I am working on packaging an upstream (aerospike) which presently puts
>> some of its file in /opt/aerospike.
>>
>> The two main folders in use (by upstream) are
>>
>> /opt/aerospike/sys/udf/lua - This has the user defined lua functions
>> shipped with the package.
>> /opt/aerospike/usr/udf/ - This will have the user's custom UDFs.
>>
>> What will be the right place in FHS to put the above two directories
>> when packaging for Fedora? Should these go into /usr/share/aerospike or
>> some place in /var?
I think the useful place to put it is to get aerospike to publish
their SRPM, especially their spec files.
Let me cut a long story short:
/opt/<vendor> is the appropriate place
for other SW-vendors to install add-on packages into, but it's an
entirely inappropriate place to for OS-vendors (such as Fedora) to put
their packages into.
Or conversely: It's strictly prohibited for Fedora to install package
into /opt, because this path is reserved for add-on packages.
Ralf
8:20 a.m.
On Sun, Jan 4, 2015 at 2:41 PM, Anshu Prateek <ansh.prat(a)gmail.com> wrote:
hi,
I am working on packaging an upstream (aerospike) which presently puts some
of its file in /opt/aerospike.
The two main folders in use (by upstream) are
/opt/aerospike/sys/udf/lua - This has the user defined lua functions
shipped with the package.
/opt/aerospike/usr/udf/ - This will have the user's custom UDFs.
Looks like all these are users-defined contents, so is it OK to read
these from anywhere?
I mean if you can allow users to specify the location during the make
install, that'd be better.
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