+1 to this. Every time I have to hit scap content I hit /usr/share/sc<tab>
and then do a search to remember that it was under 'xml'.

Trevor

On Sat, Oct 22, 2016 at 6:50 PM, Shawn Wells <[email protected]> wrote:

>
>
> On 10/21/16 2:15 PM, Martin Preisler wrote:
>
> ----- Original Message -----
>
> > From: "Steve Grubb" <[email protected]> <[email protected]>> To: 
> > [email protected]> Cc: "Martin Preisler" 
> > <[email protected]> <[email protected]>> Sent: Friday, October 21, 2016 
> > 3:02:35 PM> Subject: Re: The default install location of SSG> > On Friday, 
> > October 21, 2016 2:37:32 PM EDT Martin Preisler wrote:
>
> > > This has been bugging me for a while. The default install location of 
> > > SSG> > datastream is:> > > > 
> > > /usr/share/xml/scap/ssg/content/ssg-$PRODUCT-ds.xml> > > > This is 
> > > ridiculous! Why was this super long and complex path chosen? I> > can't> 
> > > > find this mandated by any standard, it seems to be our own invention. 
> > > [1]> > > > Why not just> > /usr/share/scap/ssg ?
>
> > > Doesn't the Linux FHS say xml data files belong in /usr/share/xml? Then> 
> > > presumably you want to differentiate with a directory under that.
>
> That's an optional directive and nobody follows it. Check out:
>
> find /usr/share -name \*.xml
>
> Differentiating files based on their format is not very useful. It makes
> more sense to differentiate based on their purpose. That's probably why
> almost nobody follows the XML rule in FHS.
>
>
> +1 to moving to something more sane. It looks like we're really the only
> provider of SCAP content -- other tools embed natively into their product,
> vs laying out on the filesystem (e.g. tripwire, BigFix, Nessus, etc).
>
> /usr/share/scap is appealing.
>
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