Bug#481105: adjust patch to pygrub and hvmloader
Hi, I just stumbled over this bug. Firstofall, it's nice that opposed to two years ago you now include pygrub at all. Thank you for that. Second, as pointed out, the FHS is not an issue as the selected path was in /usr/lib. Furthermore, if you re-read the text you should find that we're talking symlinks here, which surely are executable, but not binaries. I think it was for a reason FHS specifically uses the word binary. Still, nothing is going there, the bug is about the path to pygrub and as long as noone knows a real reason against using a symlink, so, errr, would someone pick up on this and either - install pygrub to /usr/bin in the future or - make the package install a symlink? I think this isn't an issue that should take one year to fix. Regards, Florian -- 'Sie brauchen sich um Ihre Zukunft keine Gedanken zu machen' -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#481105: adjust patch to pygrub and hvmloader
On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 9:07 PM, Marco Sinhoreli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In virtinst package, we are pointing the pygrub and hvmloader to /etc/xen-default/bin directory files. To us, this is sufficient to fix our package issue. I suggest to use alternatives to point these to /usr/bin and so, standardize with another distros. Well, I think this is the easy way to solve it. According to the FHS this is not allowed: 3.7.1. Purpose The /etc hierarchy contains configuration files. A configuration file is a local file used to control the operation of a program; it must be static and cannot be an executable binary. 3.7.2. Requirements No binaries may be located under /etc. I don't know if the directory /etc/xen-default/bin contains some binaries but after the name it seems that it does. As a location for XEN defaults it is annoying to create another directory instead using /etc/default/. Thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#481105: adjust patch to pygrub and hvmloader
Sorry, I'm wrong. Correcting mine informations: The directory is /usr/lib/xen-default/ Cheers, On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 5:37 PM, Teodor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 9:07 PM, Marco Sinhoreli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In virtinst package, we are pointing the pygrub and hvmloader to /etc/xen-default/bin directory files. To us, this is sufficient to fix our package issue. I suggest to use alternatives to point these to /usr/bin and so, standardize with another distros. Well, I think this is the easy way to solve it. According to the FHS this is not allowed: 3.7.1. Purpose The /etc hierarchy contains configuration files. A configuration file is a local file used to control the operation of a program; it must be static and cannot be an executable binary. 3.7.2. Requirements No binaries may be located under /etc. I don't know if the directory /etc/xen-default/bin contains some binaries but after the name it seems that it does. As a location for XEN defaults it is annoying to create another directory instead using /etc/default/. Thanks -- Marco Sinhoreli -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
