Dan Many thanks.Comments are below:
On Dec 7, 11:48am in "Re: a couple of ques", Daniel Quinlan wrote: > Andrew Josey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > 1. The FHS has conditions "If the X Window System is present". Does > > the LSB mandate presence of the window system (i.e. the support > > files /usr/X11R6 etc)? > > X11R6 will be a required part of a fully LSB compliant system. > Ok, so any tests related to the X Window System whilst possibly optional for FHS conformance will be mandatory for LSB conformance. > > 2. The FHS has conditions "dependent on the version of the X Window > > System supported". Does the LSB mandate the version of the X Window System , > > that is X11R6 ? > > Yes. I just talked to Dirk Hondel (of XFree86) about some of the X11R6 > stuff in FHS and LSB. We may be making some minor clarifications to the > standard on questions like this that aren't fully addressed in FHS 2.0. > Ok. Also once we have some tests that may help to flush out some issues with the specs. > > 3. The FHS talks about presence of directories. Does the LSB > > require that the mandatory directories be actual directories, or > > are symlinks be allowed? > > The current specification does not directly answer this question. A > future version will be more specific about this. There may be some > cases where it is not allowed. There will be cases where it is allowed. > Should the test suite draw the attention of the user to any symlinks by issuing warnings (not fail results) - or should we just allow either for now - I suspect the latter would be preferrred. > > 4. The FHS does not specify directory permissions for the mandatory > > file hierarchy. Does the LSB demand any particular directory > > permissions or should that be left unspecified (i.e that the > > directories be searchable only)? > > Permissions are unspecified by FHS at this time. Requiring > searchability would be an LSB extension of FHS, but is probably > reasonable for most directories. We'll leave permissions unspecified, but test for searchability. This may throw up some issues but hopefully they can be identified and resolved during a beta test cycle. regards Andrew
