On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 6:09 PM, Stefan Teleman <Stefan.Teleman at sun.com>
wrote:
> 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.
>
fontconfig.pspc does !
install into /var/fontconfig/cache
L
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