[arch-dev-public] [signoff] filesystem-2008.06-1

Eric Belanger belanger at ASTRO.UMontreal.CA
Mon Jun 9 19:19:57 EDT 2008


On Sun, 8 Jun 2008, Dan McGee wrote:

> On Sun, Jun 8, 2008 at 6:57 PM, Eric Belanger
> <belanger at astro.umontreal.ca> wrote:
>> On Sun, 8 Jun 2008, Dan McGee wrote:
>>
>>> New filesystem package:
>>> * Bumped the month number
>>> * Updated services/protocols files. These were updated in CVS 3 months
>>> ago but had still not gotten a rebuild, and were lost in the
>>> transition to SVN. This will close FS#9941.
>>>
>>> I couldn't build for x86_64, so if someone could do that it would be
>>> great.
>>>
>>> -Dan
>>>
>>
>> While buiding the x86_64 package (I haven't committed it yet), I noticed
>> that it creates a  /usr/local/man/ directory.  Shouldn't that be
>> /usr/local/share/man for FSH compliance?
>
> Looks like we need a symlink:
> http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#USRLOCALSHARE1
>
> The below patch would work and would link /usr/local/share/man ->
> ../man (aka /usr/local/man). This is acceptable under the FHS, and
> although I would probably prefer the symlink go the other way, this
> change will prevent any problems from changing an existing possibly
> non-empty directory into a symlink, so is the much easier route.
>
> I didn't apply this in SVN, I will wait for some feedback.
>

Looks good for me.

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