Adriaan de Groot wrote:
> I just ran into a problem on dillon where fontconfig was expecting different
> permissions and owners on some directories than dillon had. I conclude this
> means that the packages installed before then were *not* setting explicitly
> the owner and group and permissions on /opt/foss ($PREFIX) and other
> directories.
>
> Some packaging systems have a "hier" package (for hierarchy) that creates a
> bunch of directories with "known good" permissions in order to prevent
> surprises like this one. Does that seem like a good idea here? It would
> basically just contain a bunch of mkdir and chowns / chgrps in install.sh and
> nothing else.
It depends.
If we are talking about dirs/files which are referred to by auto*stuff as
${localstatedir}, then the auto*stuff defaults are not allowed in Solaris,
because:
${localstatedir} by default is defined by autoconf as ${prefix}/var. This is
not
allowed in Solaris as per PSARC rules, so it must be changed to /var -- you
can't have /opt/foss/var or /usr/var. So, for example, if fontconfig needs
${localstatedir}/fontconfig/cache, that directory should be
/var/fontconfig/cache, and it should be created by the package install with the
right permissions, and fontconfig's ./configure should be told to do
--localstatedir=/var.
--Stefan
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Stefan Teleman
Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Stefan.Teleman at Sun.COM
