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Re: arla rpms for redhat 6.0?
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Subject: Re: arla rpms for redhat 6.0?
In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 29 Apr 1999 10:27:41 PDT."
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In message <19990429172741.15259.rocketmail@web214.mail.yahoo.com>, Jim Nance w
rites:
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| or something like that. When I install it here I put
| everything under /usr/afsws because thats where our
| AFS stuff is on our transarc supported platforms. If
| Red Hat ever ships arla as part of its distribution I
| am sure they will try to package it up in accordance
| with where the FHS says they should go:
| ftp://ftp.pathname.com/pub/fhs-2.0.tar.gz
+--->8
Which will break the world: unless an AFS-aware program comes out of Andrew
(old = /usr/andy, new = /usr/local) it assumes /usr/afsws, largely thanks to
AIX.
The best idea for RPM would be to choose some reasonable default, then build
a relocateable RPM so "rpm --prefix" can be used to install it wherever is
preferred in the local environment.
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