From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Oct 2 11:25:56 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8497637B401 for ; Wed, 2 Oct 2002 11:25:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sccrmhc03.attbi.com (sccrmhc03.attbi.com [204.127.202.63]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A853843E42 for ; Wed, 2 Oct 2002 11:25:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from swear@attbi.com) Received: from localhost.localdomain ([12.242.158.67]) by sccrmhc03.attbi.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with ESMTP id <20021002182553.HKDM22381.sccrmhc03.attbi.com@localhost.localdomain>; Wed, 2 Oct 2002 18:25:53 +0000 Received: from localhost.localdomain (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.localdomain (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g92ISkMX021748; Wed, 2 Oct 2002 11:28:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from swear@attbi.com) Received: (from jojo@localhost) by localhost.localdomain (8.12.5/8.12.5/Submit) id g92ISdns021743; Wed, 2 Oct 2002 11:28:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from swear@attbi.com) X-Authentication-Warning: localhost.localdomain: jojo set sender to swear@attbi.com using -f To: Gianmarco Giovannelli Cc: chat@freebsd.org, esperti@gufi.org Subject: Re: RAV and paths & hier References: <5.1.1.6.2.20021002093611.0210ceb0@194.184.65.4> From: swear@attbi.com (Gary W. Swearingen) Date: 02 Oct 2002 11:28:39 -0700 In-Reply-To: <5.1.1.6.2.20021002093611.0210ceb0@194.184.65.4> Message-ID: Lines: 37 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.1 (Cuyahoga Valley) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Gianmarco Giovannelli writes: > Hi, I have installed the last RAV antivirus for FreeBSD. > The old version rightly install in the /usr/local/rav8 . The new one > pretend to install in /opt/rav /etc/rav and so on ... ... > >>Please fix it asap please ... ... > Is a right thing to insist on old layout or it can be accepted the new > (ugly) one ? I'd think that would depend on how they marketed the product. If they never say they're publishing it for use on FreeBSD, then I think one should be very polite in ASKING, please, would they make it work better on FreeBSD and maybe explain why it's to their advantage to do so. If they're trying to "sell" it for FreeBSD, then they deserve some haranguing if their product has important bugs (like yours) on FreeBSD. P.S. (extracted quote) > > The new locations for RAV were made conforming to the new FHS 2.2 > > (Filesystem Hierarchy Standard) There should be a standard for application packaging that wraps a layer around directory layout standards so each OS can ask for stuff to be installed differently. But layout seems sufficiently unimportant to me that I'd have no trouble seeing all OSes jump on the FHS bandwagon (more than they already have), even if it is messier than the FreeBSD layout. IIRC, several Unixes are already in the process of doing so. It's packaging that's important and I don't see that situation improving in any way worth worrying about until someone works it in into the security infrastructure so you don't have to trust application/installer writers so much (and many other reasons). To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message