According to the Linux Filesystem Standard, variable objects are to be situated within the /var/lib directory as Jan noted.
Review the LFS for more information. Thomas Sent from my iPhone On Mar 21, 2010, at 3:35 PM, Matthew Coene <[email protected]> wrote: > Just a thought from, unfortunately, the non programmer, but OpenVAS > activist.. > > What about a sort of a modified perl or otherwise script sort of > like vmware-tools offers?? Thereby regardless of distro, users > supply the right paths when prompted, then they are passed to the ./ > configure as arguments and this issue gets pre-empted in a distro- > agnostic fashion?? > > Or is this still looking to eventually to do strict checks to > architecture, version and paths during a linear ./configure run?? > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Jan-Oliver Wagner" [[email protected]] > Sent: 03/21/2010 09:20 PM CET > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Openvas-distro] debian packages of 3.x tree > > > > Hi Kost, > > On Sunday 21 March 2010 19:33:53 Vlatko Kosturjak wrote: >> I've just started to package openvas 3.x for my needs and saw that >> 3.x >> debian rules for packaging are bit broken. Fixed them a bit. > > thanks a lot for taking up this matter!! > >> But found some things which (I guess) should be disccused. I see that >> plugins dir is changed to /var/lib/openvas/plugins. I've fixed to be >> /usr/lib/openvas/plugins as anyway in current state it did not work. >> Patch is commited in revision 7015. >> >> But, if there's any requirement for plugins to be in /var/lib/ >> openvas/plugins, >> it can be done, but there must be some patches for Makefile(for >> example, to >> copy nes files to correct dir) and openvas-nvt-sync. >> >> Should it be Linux/OpenVAS wide decision or just Debian? > > to my understanding of the linux filesystem hierarchy ideas > it is better to have the changing contents of the plugins directory > under /var/lib instead of /usr/lib. > > I haven't analysed Debian's policies or of the other distros yet. > Other voices about the location of the NVTs? > > Best > > Jan > > -- > Dr. Jan-Oliver Wagner | ++49-541-335 08 30 | http://www.intevation.de/ > Intevation GmbH, Neuer Graben 17, 49074 Osnabrück | AG Osnabrück, HR > B 18998 > Geschäftsführer: Frank Koormann, Bernhard Reiter, Dr. Jan-Oliver Wag > ner > _______________________________________________ > Openvas-distro mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.wald.intevation.org/mailman/listinfo/openvas-distro > > ______________________________________________________________________ > This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. > For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email > ______________________________________________________________________ > _______________________________________________ > Openvas-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.wald.intevation.org/mailman/listinfo/openvas-discuss _______________________________________________ Openvas-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.wald.intevation.org/mailman/listinfo/openvas-discuss
