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Re: arla rpms for redhat 6.0?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex Martin)
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From: Alex Martin <A.J.Martin@qmw.ac.uk>
Organization: Physics Department, QMW
To: Jim Nance <jim_nance@yahoo.com>, arla-drinkers@stacken.kth.se
Subject: Re: arla rpms for redhat 6.0?
Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1999 09:48:32 +0100
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On Thu, 29 Apr 1999, Jim Nance wrote:
>
> Hi Steve,
> Thanks for being willing to do this. Before you
> start I want to complicate your life :-) I have
> looked
> at the rpms referenced on the arla web page. I
> believe
> that they unstall most of their files under
> /usr/athena
> 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
> Obviously I want you to build the RPMS to install
> everything under /usr/afsws and everyone at MIT will
> prefer /usr/athena. Since you are making the RPMS,
> you get to decide where they go, but that probably
> means someone else will need to make another set.
> Here is my suggestion. Lets figure out where
> everything would go on a FHS compliant system and
> make the RPMS put arla into those locations. Then
> we can make another set of RPMS which installs
> symlinks for compatability with particular "styles"
> of AFS instalations. With this scheme I for example
> would install the arla rpm and the
> arla-transarc-compat
> rpm. Someone else might do the arla rpm and the
> arla-athena-compat rpm. I think we can build all the
> -compat rpms out of the same .spec file that builds
> the arla rpm.
> Any comments?
>
Hi Jim,
I would be completely in favour of sorting out
a standard set of RedHat/FHS complaint RPMS. As I
understand it there are essentially two opts:
1) Treat arla and krb4 as optional system components
and put them under /opt.
2) Place the components seperately in the /usr
hierarchy i.e. /usr/bin, /usr/sbin, /usr/etc and /usr/lib
as appropriate. The cache should be under /var.
I suspect RH would do the latter, if they were ever
to include arla in its distribution. I think either would
also allow one to have the transarc product
installed, which might be useful. Comments?
cheers,
Alex
