From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Dec 9 10:26:12 2000 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Dec 9 10:26:10 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-26-235-186.mmcable.com [65.26.235.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 10EE837B400 for ; Sat, 9 Dec 2000 10:26:10 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 21929 invoked by uid 100); 9 Dec 2000 18:26:08 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14898.31040.556979.635681@guru.mired.org> Date: Sat, 9 Dec 2000 12:26:08 -0600 (CST) To: brian william wolter Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: OT: FHS 2.1 (Was: Install Directory) In-Reply-To: <120338260@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1 (patch 10) "Capitol Reef" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG brian william wolter types: > according to the Filesystems Hierarchy Standard 1 (FHS) Version 2.1 > /sbin, /bin, and /usr are reserved for the base OS and it's dependant > packages. more or less essential packages are to be built and installed > in /usr/local/bin. non-essential applications and add-ons are to be > installed in /opt// (with binaries in /opt//bin). > > and technically you're supposed to create a seperate disk partition for > /opt. I can't find *any* of that in FHS 2.1. By my reading, /usr/local is reserved "for use by the system administrator when installing software locally." /opt is for "Add-on application software packages", with no mention of "essential" at all. Nor do I see anything about needing to put these things on a separate partition. In fact, the definition of "essential" implied by section 3.1 is "commands ... which are required when no other file systems are mounted", which would seem to make /opt having essential things and being on another disk partition mutually exclusive propositions. Perhaps you could let me know which parts led you to those conclusions? While on the topic, I note that the FreeBSD package system fails to comply with the FHS by putting packages in /usr/local instead of /opt. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Unix/FreeBSD consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message