Re: libexec in glibc

2002-10-13 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alfred M. Szmidt) writes: > I really would like to know who everyone is here, there are already a > couple questions about Daniel's response to me on the FHS list about > not a distribution is not allowed to add root-level directories. Sorry, I can't even parse that. > For exa

Re: libexec in glibc

2002-10-13 Thread Alfred M. Szmidt
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thomas Bushnell, BSG) writes: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alfred M. Szmidt) writes: > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thomas Bushnell, BSG) writes: > > > > > 1) What gets added to the FHS is not a Debian decision, > > > 2) Debian released architectures need to conform to FHS, and > > > 3) Port

Re: libexec in glibc

2002-10-12 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alfred M. Szmidt) writes: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thomas Bushnell, BSG) writes: > > > 1) What gets added to the FHS is not a Debian decision, > > 2) Debian released architectures need to conform to FHS, and > > 3) Ports still being worked on don't need to treat (2) as their top >

Re: libexec in glibc

2002-10-12 Thread Alfred M. Szmidt
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thomas Bushnell, BSG) writes: > 1) What gets added to the FHS is not a Debian decision, > 2) Debian released architectures need to conform to FHS, and > 3) Ports still being worked on don't need to treat (2) as their top >priority, especially when they expect FHS will change

Re: libexec in glibc

2002-10-12 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alfred M. Szmidt) writes: > Jeff Bailey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Debian's glibc package currently defines $(prefix)/libexec to > > $(prefix)/lib everywhere except on hurd-i386. I would like to correct > > this so that we're the same as other arch's. (There should be no

Re: libexec in glibc

2002-10-12 Thread Alfred M. Szmidt
Jeff Bailey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Debian's glibc package currently defines $(prefix)/libexec to > $(prefix)/lib everywhere except on hurd-i386. I would like to correct > this so that we're the same as other arch's. (There should be no > libexec dirs on Debian, so comply with the FHS). >

Re: libexec in glibc

2002-10-12 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Roger Leigh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thomas Bushnell, BSG) writes: > > > Jeff Bailey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > The issues is that by Debian policy, all Debian ports must follow the > > > FHS. The same is true of the FreeBSD and NetBSD ports (I only noticed >

Re: libexec in glibc

2002-10-11 Thread Roger Leigh
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thomas Bushnell, BSG) writes: > Jeff Bailey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > The issues is that by Debian policy, all Debian ports must follow the > > FHS. The same is true of the FreeBSD and NetBSD ports (I only noticed > > this because of the patch to support FreeBSD). > >

Re: libexec in glibc

2002-10-11 Thread Richard Kreuter
On Fri, Oct 11, 2002 at 02:51:25PM -0700, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: > Jeff Bailey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I didn't really follow the earlier discussions on this - Can you > > remind me what mailing list it was on? The idea of libexec being in a > > Hurd annex seems silly (and somethin

Re: libexec in glibc

2002-10-11 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Jeff Bailey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I didn't really follow the earlier discussions on this - Can you > remind me what mailing list it was on? The idea of libexec being in a > Hurd annex seems silly (and something a committee would be unlikely to > accept if we were storing anything other th

Re: libexec in glibc

2002-10-11 Thread Jeff Bailey
On Fri, Oct 11, 2002 at 02:37:22PM -0700, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: > We need not change anything now in Hurd systems. We do not need to > worry about matching aspects of policy that we expect to change by > the time we actually release. And, we expect that FHS will have, by > that time, a Hur

Re: libexec in glibc

2002-10-11 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Jeff Bailey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The issues is that by Debian policy, all Debian ports must follow the > FHS. The same is true of the FreeBSD and NetBSD ports (I only noticed > this because of the patch to support FreeBSD). > > Certainly after */libexec is added into the FHS, we can add

Re: libexec in glibc

2002-10-11 Thread Jeff Bailey
On Fri, Oct 11, 2002 at 02:59:25PM -0400, Simon Law wrote: > > Debian's glibc package currently defines $(prefix)/libexec to > > $(prefix)/lib everywhere except on hurd-i386. I would like to > > correct this so that we're the same as other arch's. (There > > should be no libexec dirs on Debian,

Re: libexec in glibc

2002-10-11 Thread Simon Law
On Fri, Oct 11, 2002 at 09:47:22AM -0700, Jeff Bailey wrote: > Debian's glibc package currently defines $(prefix)/libexec to > $(prefix)/lib everywhere except on hurd-i386. I would like to correct > this so that we're the same as other arch's. (There should be no > libexec dirs on Debian, so comp

libexec in glibc

2002-10-11 Thread Jeff Bailey
Debian's glibc package currently defines $(prefix)/libexec to $(prefix)/lib everywhere except on hurd-i386. I would like to correct this so that we're the same as other arch's. (There should be no libexec dirs on Debian, so comply with the FHS). Any objections? -- learning from failures is nic