On Sunday 29 March 2009 01:16:56 pm Phil Stracchino wrote: > Scott Barninger wrote: > > Kern and I have had some offline discussion previously on this subject. > > The current RPM build offers 2 options, one to place files with LSB > > compliance and a second to place files as Kern has advocated and which is > > how Bacula Systems is delivering binaries. > > > > My 2 cents worth is that packages published by the project on sourceforge > > should respect LSB and distribution (linux or BSD) guidelines. The > > advantages of this approach are: > > > > 1. we don't get emails from people complaining about file placement > > 2. we don't suffer hesitation from people who are strongly in favor of > > LSB 3. it creates a differentiator for Bacula Systems. > > > > On Sunday 29 March 2009 11:03:32 am Dan Langille wrote: > >> Discussion trimed to devel & beta > > FWIW, I have *always* used the /opt/bacula layout. It puts the entire > Bacula installation in one place separate from everything else on the > machine, and makes it trivial to (for example) install Bacula on an > otherwise bare disk booted from a CD, then do a full system restore > without overwriting any active files. One could, for instance, boot > from a Knoppix CD and copy /opt/bacula from an NFS share, or mount it > from a USB stick (as we were discussing recently). > > The problem with slavish adherence to things like the LSB is that it > isn't always the best solution for everything. > > "Our corporate policy says we always do this." > "That's fine, but this won't work if you do that." > "But corporate policy says..." > > One size does not fit all. Standards are great, but sometimes you have > to recognize that there are special cases for which the standard is not > the best solution, and that sometimes trying to make them conform to > "the standard" is actively harmful. The trick is to recognize the > occasions upon which applying "the standard" is not appropriate.
Exactly my point(s) I think. We can satisfy that crowd and we can also satisfy the others who may either choose to purchase Bacula Systems services OR rebuild the package themselves. Everyone is happy and the project benefits. We provide all the tools and options and you choose how you wish to implement. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Bacula-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-devel
