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Date:      Thu, 5 Dec 1996 07:17:09 +0100 (MET)
From:      Andreas Klemm <andreas@klemm.gtn.com>
To:        Ollivier Robert <roberto@keltia.freenix.fr>
Cc:        CVS-committers@freefall.freebsd.org, ports@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: news/lib - lib/news ???
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.95.961205070744.1688B-100000@klemm.gtn.com>
In-Reply-To: <Mutt.19961204234926.roberto@keltia.freenix.fr>

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On Wed, 4 Dec 1996, Ollivier Robert wrote:

> According to Satoshi Asami:
> > I agree.  I propose lib/news, to adhere to the BSD standard.
> > Actually, config files should go to etc/news, system executables
> > libexec or sbin, and user executables to bin (not news/bin or
> > lib/news/bin).
> 
> Well, it depends :-)
> 
> I'd say now, after a few experiences:
> 
> - /usr/local/news/bin   binaries
> - /usr/local/news/sbin  "system" binaries (innd, nnrpd)
> - /usr/local/news/lib   config. files (inn.conf, newsfeeds, and so on).
> - /news                 spool partition(s)
> - /var/news             active & history (big files)
> 
> YMMV.

I'd second to keep things as they are. inn is a relatively complex
package. It would be fine, if all of the directories live under a
well known place like /usr/local/news. 

Look, I use the inn-current port as of 1 months ago ...

du: /usr/local/news/innd: Permission denied
3556	/usr/local/news/lib
1	/usr/local/news/locks
19	/usr/local/news/bin/control
20	/usr/local/news/bin/rnews
1	/usr/local/news/bin/auth.dir
594	/usr/local/news/bin
4152	/usr/local/news

An additional bonus: less work to make the port. The config.data
file would then only need some patches.

This might be an advantage to keep track of the changes in
further developement of inn ...

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