Shawn Walker wrote:
Matt Ingenthron wrote:
Shawn Walker wrote:
UNIX admin wrote:
The answer is that your software is not correctly
packaged for OpenSolaris 200x :)
Do you mind pointing out what exactly makes my software
"incorrectly packaged" for OpenSolaris?
Is there a formal specification document which details how and in
what places "Indiana" expects to have software packaged?
As noted in:
PSARC/2005/185 Enabling serendipitous discovery
PSARC/2007/048 Include GNU coreutils 6.7
PSARC/1991/061 Packaging rules for system extensions
...many bits of software are moving to /usr :)
Death to /opt/sfw, /usr/sfw, etc.
Deliver to /usr; your life will be simpler, many users will thank
you, and you won't have this issue.
Uh, Shawn... you're conflating things **Sun** had not delivered to
/usr/bin and instead used /usr/gnu with software **others**, who are
not part of the distro, want to deliver to OpenSolaris.
None of the documents you've referenced above indicate third parties
should start delivering software to the UNIX system repository
(/usr). In fact the ARC guidelines _specify_ /opt, /var/opt,
/etc/opt and friends for "Add-on system software or applications":
http://opensolaris.org/os/community/arc/policies/install-locations/
Respectfully, I believe you are quite wrong on this.
I disagree. For many of the same reasons stated in PSARC/2005/185, I
believe even third-party software belongs in /usr.
Could you reference where this was communicated? (I don't think you can)
What you've supplied thus far has to do with software Sun has bundled.
I've referenced where Sun has specified otherwise. Please use the ARC
community to get this documented correctly if you're so sure of the change.
Otherwise, some of the same problems stated in there are going to
occur with third-party software. It is my belief that most new users
are going to expect to be able to user their software right away when
they install it without modifying their $PATH.
Others are free to interpret as they like, but that is my view.
Cheers,
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