Hi, > I've been a FreeBSD user for some time, and recently decided to > explore the Solaris world. After (painfully) getting my 'bcmndis0' > card to work, I must say, I'm impressed so far. > > However, I am a bit confused. One thing I suppose I took for granted > in FreeBSD is the 'standardization' of where things 'should' be. For > instance, I knew anything third-party would be in /usr/local/*, and > all base tools/applications were in /usr/bin /bin, etc. > > My question is, is there any documentation on file system > standardization in Solaris/OpenSolaris? For example, if I were to > compile mplayer from source, where *should* I set the --prefix to, > when running `./configure'? > > I'm using mplayer as an example in this situation, and if there is > good documentation on this kind of thing, I'd appreciate a push in the > right direction.
As for file system layout standardization, and as a FreeBSD user too, I wrote something about this in the past: http://blog.thilelli.net/post/2007/05/08/Best-Practices-in-Installation-Locations-and-Filesystem-Hierarchies As for third party software, I would say it will depend on the software provider you will use (Blastware, Sun Freeware, etc.), and eventually the distribution (SYSV versus IPS packages, for example). -- julien. http://blog.thilelli.net/
