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

Dan McGee dpmcgee at gmail.com
Tue Jun 17 07:37:39 EDT 2008


On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 6:19 PM, Eric Belanger
<belanger at astro.umontreal.ca> wrote:
> 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.

Sorry, this got lost in the dust. 2008.06-2 adds a symlink, please
signoff. Eric, if you could rebuild for x86_64, that would be great.

-Dan




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